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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
Chamon, Marcos - 2010
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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The Economic Security Index : A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis
Hacker, Jacob S. - 2012
combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098821
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement : Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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Labour Supply as a Buffer : Evidence from UK Households
Benito, Andrew - 2012
This paper examines labour supply adjustment – both hours worked and participation decisions. We focus on the response of each to financial shocks, employing data from the BHPS. Estimated responses are broadly consistent with models of self-insurance that incorporate labour supply flexibility....
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Wealth Distribution within Couples
Grabka, Markus - 2013
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...
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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia : Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158667
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Income Taxation and Household Size : Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?
baclet, alexandre - 2006
compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …
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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2018
Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...
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Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk
Brown, Sarah - 2016
category. Background risk exerts a significant impact on household portfolios, resulting in a 'flight from risk', away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977335
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households : Evidence from Sweden
Hederos Eriksson, Karin - 2015
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011176