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Housing, home ownership, tenure choice, first-time home-buyers, marriage, income risk

Fisher, Jonas D. M. (contributor); … - 2009

We document that home ownership of households with "heads" aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001{2005 housing boom. The 1980{2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities made it easier to...

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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U profile"?

Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007

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Is there a "heat or eat" trade-off in the UK?

Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2011

We merge detailed household level expenditure data from older households with historical local weather information. We then test for a heat or eat trade off: do houseolds cut back on food spending to finance the additional cost of keeping warm duing cold shocks? We find evidence that the poorest...

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...

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Reducing binge drinking? : the effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state … hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …-related hospitalizations. Applying difference-in-differences methods, we find that the policy change reduces alcohol-related hospitalizations …

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Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2017

Alcohol consumption is associated with costs to society due to its impact on crime and health. Tax can lead consumers … to internalise these externalities. We study optimal corrective taxation in the alcohol market. We allow for the fact … products can improve welfare relative to a single tax rate on ethanol. We estimate a model of demand in the UK alcohol market …

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Tax design in the alcohol market

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2017

We study optimal corrective taxation in the alcohol market. Consumption generates negative externalities that are non …-linear in the total amount of alcohol consumed. If tastes for products are heterogeneous and correlated with marginal … framework and empirically for the UK alcohol market. Welfare gains from optimally varying rates are higher the more concentrated …

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