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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia : Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158667
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Modern Infectious Diseases : Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
Bloom, David E. - 2020
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824432
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Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment
Pechey, Rachel; Burge, Peter; Mentzakis, Emmanouil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 104-109
discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042269
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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight : Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Dragone, Davide - 2015
weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023791
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Behavioral Responses to Taxation : Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
Rozema, Kyle - 2015
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that increases in cigarette taxes can induce food stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025318
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International Job Search:Mexicans In and Out of the US
Rendon, Sílvio; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration aredetermined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model ofjob search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of themigration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861161
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraintsand Start-up Costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship betweenwealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupationalchoice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862598
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Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys : Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 Until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey o...
Merz, Joachim - 2010
private household consumption expenditures of selected expenditure groups. A recommendation concludes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139959
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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country : Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame - 2011
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that allows to test for causality on each individual country separably by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122115
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation
Graham, Liam - 2011
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...
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