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Saving Puzzles and Saving Policies in the United States
Lusardi, Annamaria; Skinner, Jonathan S.; Venti, Steven F. - 2021
In the past two decades the widely reported personal saving rate in the United States has dropped from double digits to below zero. First, we attempt to account for the decline in the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) saving rate. The macroeconomic literature suggests that about half...
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A Satellite Account for Health in the United States
Cutler, David M.; Ghosh, Kaushik; Messer, Kassandra; … - 2021
This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector and measures productivity growth in health care for the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. We measure the change in medical spending and health outcomes for a comprehensive set of 80 conditions. Medical care has positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240641
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Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the U.S. Productivity Slowdown
Syverson, Chad - 2016
The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators and researchers have suggested that this slowdown is at least in part illusory, because real output data have failed to capture the new and better products of the past decade. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999443
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Distributional National Accounts : Methods and Estimates for the United States
Piketty, Thomas - 2017
This paper combines tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of national income in the United States since 1913. Our distributional national accounts capture 100% of national income, allowing us to compute growth rates for each quantile of the income distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966935
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House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis
Mian, Atif R. - 2010
.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in defaults from 2006 to 2008. Employing land topology-based housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151131
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Families as Roommates : Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000
Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2009
household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra …
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840847
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Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1962 to 2016 : Has Middle Class Wealth Recovered?
Wolff, Edward N. - 2017
Asset prices plunged between 2007 and 2010 but then rebounded from 2010 to 2016. The most telling finding is that median wealth plummeted by 44 percent over years 2007 to 2010. The inequality of net worth, after almost two decades of little movement, went up sharply from 2007 to 2010, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941966
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A Cohort Analysis of Saving Behavior by U.S. Households
Attanasio, Orazio - 2010
In this paper I analyze the pattern of saving behavior by U.S. households, using the Consumer Expenditure (CEX) Survey. The analysis' main goal is to explain the decline in aggregate personal saving in the United States in the 1980s. I estimate a typical' saving-age profile and identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763405
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Taxation and Household Portfolio Composition : U.S. Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s
Poterba, James M. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between household marginal income tax rates, the set of assets that households own … surveys. The empirical findings suggest that a household's marginal tax rate has an important effect its asset allocation … decisions. The probability that a household owns tax-advantaged assets is strongly related to its tax rate on ordinary income …
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