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Bockerman, Petri - 2016

income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples, and are sensitive to specification and …

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Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule

Kostøl, Andreas; Myhre, Andreas - 2021

attenuated by at least 70%. Second, the observed elasticity among those who receive the information letter is at least twice as …

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Engel Curves, Spatial Variation in Prices and Demand for Commodities in Côte D'Ivoire

Gbakou, Monnet - 2011

This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d … commodity quantities and deriving Engel curves. Our findings reveal that the own-price elasticity of meat and dairy products is …

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Sharing Rule Identification for General Collective Consumption Models

Cherchye, L. - 2012

We propose a method to identify bounds (i.e. set identification) on the sharing rule for a general collective household consumption model. Unlike the effects of distribution factors, it is well known that the level of the sharing rule cannot be uniquely identified without strong assumptions on...

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Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less...

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Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index

Jolliffe, Dean - 2010

reflecting important differences in the relationship between income and the body mass index. The first finding is based on … regression (UQR), which provides a measure of the income-gradient in BMI at different points on the unconditional BMI … distribution. The UQR estimator indicates that the strongest relationship between income and BMI is observed at the tails of the …

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The Weight of the Crisis : Evidence from Newborns in Argentina

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great Depression. In this article we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious but...

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Running and Jumping Variables in RD Designs : Evidence Based on Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Birth Weights

Barreca, Alan I. - 2010

Throughout the years spanned by the U.S. Vital Statistics Linked Birth and Infant Death Data (1983-2002), birth weights are measured most precisely for children of white and highly educated mothers. As a result, less healthy children, who are more likely to be of low socioeconomic status, are...

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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity

Porqueras, Pedro Gomis - 2011

and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s …

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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2011

. Specifically, we estimate an elasticity of subsidy receipt with respect to distance of -0.13. The final section of the paper … to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children …

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