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Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …
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We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
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-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …
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investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently … relationship between divorce and marital investments is offered in terms of increasing intra-household time consumption … together by partners in the same household has become increasingly crucial in the American family …
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We make the novel argument that time spent on household chores can possibly reflect racial discrimination based on … color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of marriage, recognizes that both intra-household …
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China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U … permanent variance of household income was stable, the transitory variance rose sharply. Based on these estimates, we calibrate … household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings …
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. Combining these estimates with data on Spanish households' financial decisions from the Survey of Household Finances (EFF …
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The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor-income (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a...
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standard model of household life cycle behavior. The model generates endogenous dynamic interrelationships between the child … quality and employment processes in the household, which are found to be consistent with patterns observed in the data. The … estimated model is used to explore the effects of schooling subsidies and employment restrictions on household welfare and child …
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Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members … household welfare function …
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