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Job Loss, Credit Constraints and Consumption Growth
Crossley, Thomas F.; Low, Hamish W. - 2011
We use direct evidence on credit constraints to study their importance for household consumption growth and for welfare. We distentangle the direct effect on consumption growth of a currently binding credit constraints from the indirect effect of a potentially binding credit constraint which...
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Precaution and risk aversion: Decomposing the effect of unemployment benefits on saving
Kolsrud, Jonas - 2013
that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …
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Consumption smoothing during unemployment
Kolsrud, Jonas - 2011
A vast literature has investigated how unemployment insurance (UI) affects labor supply. However, the distorting effect … deterministic relationship between previous earnings and unemployment benefits. The randomized assignment of benefits created by the … kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using …
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Carnegie visits Nobel: Do inheritances affect labor and capital income?
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011
The objective of this paper is to study when and how much labor supply and savings of heirs respond to inheritances. We estimate fixed effects models following direct heirs, inheriting in 2004, during the years 2000 - 2008 using Swedish panel data. Our first main result is that the more the heir...
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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe: A survey
Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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Money vs. time: Family income, maternal labor supply, and child development
Agostinelli, Francesco; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2021
This paper analyzes the relationship between work-promoting policies and child development. First, we provide new comprehensive evidence of the unintended consequences for child development of the Earned Income Tax Credit expansions during the 1990s in the United States. Second, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439352
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The reaction of consumer spending and debt to tax rebates: Evidence from consumer credit data
Agarwal, Sumit; Liu, Chunlin; Souleles, Nicholas S. - 2007
We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that on average...
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Gender-targeted transfers by default? Evidence from a child allowance reform in Sweden
Lindahl, Erica; Rosenqvist, Olof; Selin, Håkan - 2023
We exploit a sharp birthday discontinuity in a large and universal Swedish cash transfer program, creating plausibly exogenous variation in the default disbursement option, while holding entitlements and other financial incentives constant. When the cash transfer is paid out to the mother by...
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Income Receipt and Mortality – Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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Income receipt and mortality: Evidence from Swedish public sector employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464456