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The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - 2003
SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times that of foreign-born singles. Further, there...
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Inequality and risk
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2002
In poor societies, asset accumulation serves as insurance. It also opens the door to wider inequality. Many societies prohibit certain types of accumulation, such as land sales or indenture contracts. This paper investigates the theoretical relationship between risk sharing, asset accumulation,...
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Equilibrium asset prices and the wealth distribution with inattentive consumers
Finocchaiaro, Daria - 2010
This paper studies the effects of heterogeneity in planning propensity on wealth inequality and asset prices. I consider an economy populated by attentive and inattentive agents. Attentive agents plan their consumption period by period, while inattentive agents plan every other period....
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Household wealth in Latin America
Torche, Florencia; Spilerman, Seymour - 2006
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of wealth ownership and wealth inequality in Latin American countries, using diverse published sources and primary data analysis for 16 nations. We produce estimates of the distribution of home ownership, land, and financial assets, and find very high...
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Rooms of One?s Own : Gender, Race and Home Ownership as Wealth Accumulation in the United States
Sedo, Stanley A.; Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2004
Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These investigations reveal that the gap in housing outcomes is...
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The Wealth of Mexican Americans
Hildebrand, Vincent A.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2004
This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican Americans. Results reveal that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in conditional expected wealth functions. Similarly, income differentials are important, but do not play the...
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
de Haan, Monique - 2008
nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study …
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin to compare our approach to conventional rankings that assign … deterministic factor weights and ignore uncertainty. Greater discrepancies in rankings emerge for Texas than Wisconsin since the …
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Das Wisconsin-Works-Modell: Vorbild für eine Reform der deutschen Sozialhilfe?
Peter, Waltraut - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 29 (2002) 2, pp. 55-62
In Wisconsin sorgte die mutige Sozialhilfereform von 1997 dafür, dass der Sozialhilfeetat und die Zahl der … OFFENSIV nähert sich dem Wisconsin-Modell an. Doch wesentliche Elemente für eine dauerhafte Beseitigung der Sozialhilfefalle …
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The impact of Act 10 on public sector compensation in Wisconsin
Biggs, Andrew G.; Richwine, Jason - 2012
After a protracted legal and political battle, on March 11, 2011, the Wisconsin state Legislature passed Act 10, the … powers of collective bargaining and dues collection. This study analyzes public sector salaries and benefits in Wisconsin … government employees receive salaries roughly equal to those paid to private sector Wisconsin employees with similar education …
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