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I show that recreation has become much more egalitarian over the last hundred years by estimating recreational expenditure elasticities in 1888-1890, 1917-1919, 1935-1936, 1972-1973, and 1991. I find that expenditure elasticities have fallen from around two at the beginning of the century to...
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implications for how aggregate labor supply responds to changes in taxes. In the first model, curvature in the utility from leisure … extent of curvature in the utility from leisure function …
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In this paper we analyze income tax design in a two member household labor supply model where time spent on consumption together by the two household members is valued differently from time spent apart. We treat consumption as a non excludable public good to members of the household; one example...
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Most economic models for time allocation ignore constraints on what people can actually do with their time. Economists recently have emphasized the importance of considering prior consumption commitments that constrain behavior. This research develops a new model for time valuation that uses...
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(relatively) tax complements to leisure and subsidize substitutes because doing so helps to offset the distorting effect of …, Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) claim to have demonstrated the opposite, that goods complementary with leisure should quot … that the optimality of relatively taxing leisure complements is indeed correct, and conflicting results are explained …
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The object of this paper is to examine the importance of capital market assumptions. A special continuous-time model is developed in sections II-IV which is applicable to the perfect capital market case. It can also be used when there is no capital market at all (section IV). For 'reasonable'...
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, and public goods. Standard theory, which supposes that persons want more income and more leisure, does not predict how …The merits of alternative income tax policies depend on the population distribution of preferences for income, leisure … beyond the presumption that persons prefer more income and leisure. This shows that observation of a person's labor supply …
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From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non … socioeconomic variables than is leisure, and this paper shows that the aggregation is also suspect from the analytical point of view …
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We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which …
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This paper provides model-based estimates of the value of oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The best estimate of economically recoverable oil in the federal portion of ANWR is 7.06 billion barrels of oil, a quantity roughly equal to US consumption in 2005. The oil is worth...
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