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The Impact of the Non-essential Business Closure Policy on Covid-19 Infection Rates
Song, Hummy; McKenna, Ryan M.; Chen, Angela T.; David, Guy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many localities instituted non-essential business closure orders, keeping individuals categorized as essential workers at the frontlines while sending their non-essential counterparts home. We examine the extent to which being designated as an essential or...
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Low Energy : Estimating Electric Vehicle Electricity Use
Burlig, Fiona; Bushnell, James B.; Rapson, David S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We provide the first at-scale estimate of electric vehicle (EV) home charging. Previous estimates are either based on surveys that reach conflicting conclusions, or are extrapolated from a small, unrepresentative sample of households with dedicated EV meters. We combine billions of hourly...
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Production Within the Household
Leibowitz, Arleen - 1974
The amount of time married women spend in workforce has increased dramatically in the last thirty years. This increase in labor force participation has been accompanied by changes in allocation of time to various activities in the household as well. Since the proportion of women in the labor...
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Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession
Bernstein, Shai - 2017
We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and whether such effects …
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Precautionary Saving of Chinese and U.S. Households
Choi, Horag - 2014
We employ a model of precautionary saving to study why household saving rates are so high in China and so low in the US … components. This decomposition indicates that over 80 percent of China's saving rate and nearly all of the US saving arises from … the precautionary motive. The difference in the income growth rate between China and the US is vastly more important for …
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The Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Income : Estimates from Panel Data on Households
Hall, Robert E. - 1980
We investigate the stochastic relation between income and consumption (specifically, consumption of food) within a panel of about 2,000 households. Our major findings are: 1. Consumption responds much more strongly to permanent than to transitory movements of income. 2. The response to...
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Household Labor Search, Spousal Insurance, and Health Care Reform
Fang, Hanming - 2019
an "employee-only" health insurance contract emerging among low productivity firms. We relate these outcomes to the …
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MPC Heterogeneity in Europe : Sources and Policy Implications
Ampudia, Miguel - 2018
. The estimation of key parameters uses a simulated method of moments approach to match moments related to asset market … estimation are used to characterize the distributions of the marginal propensity to consume across households for each of the …
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Heterogeneity in Expectations, Risk Tolerance, and Household Stock Shares : The Attenuation Puzzle
Ameriks, John - 2018
relative magnitudes in proportion with the predictions of theories. Incorporating survey measurement error in the estimation … of what benchmark finance theories predict. Because of the careful attention in the estimation to measurement error, the …
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Unpacking Household Engel Curves
De Vreyer, Philippe - 2020
The classic Working-Leser household Engel curve is unpacked to reveal individual budget allocations across commodities as a function of both individual and household total spending. Two main findings emerge on calibrating our model to an unusual sub-household dataset for Senegal. First, for all...
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