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We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...
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This paper studies the implications of household financial choices for the effects of monetary policy on consumption … heterogeneity in consumption responses, monetary policy, operating through its effects on household income and asset market returns … stock returns. Monetary policy has a larger impact on consumption in Italy and Spain compared to France and Germany …
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supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains … large and significant welfare gains for the average household that are mainly driven by a reduction in the cost of living …
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The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for educational attainment and lifetime earnings. After providing...
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We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in their share of aggregate income. In the U.S., since top income shares began to rise rapidly in the early 1980s, incomes of those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution...
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individual-pre-tax and household-post-tax earnings and across administrative (Social Security Administration) and survey (Panel … Study of Income Dynamics) data. We estimate two alternative processes for household after-tax earnings and study their …
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We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …
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expansion of household debt, the boom in housing, and declining flows of household savings into deposit institutions. These data …
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This paper assesses the impacts across US household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs. We consider both …
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To what extent does household inequality affect the response of aggregate consumption to aggregate real shocks? We … first review two state-of-the-art papers with household heterogeneity and aggregate uncertainty. They teach us that having a …
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