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In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
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Reversals in the patterns of women's labor supply in the U.S., 1976 - 2009
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
Despite strong increases in women's labor force participation - especially among married women with children - in the 1980s, and somewhat less strong increases in the 1990s, the first decade of the twenty-first century has seen declines across the board. These have been especially marked among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269527
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie - 2013
We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293239
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Time to eat: household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267333
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Mismeasured household size and its implications for the identification of economies of scale
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2008
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys … measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We … construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269073
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Income taxation of US households: Basic facts
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278342
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Pensions, household saving, and welfare: A dynamic analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278632
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Time limits: The effects on welfare use and other consumption-smoothing mechanisms
Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe - 2012
We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation covering the period 1989-2006 to investigate the impact that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The...
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289981
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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