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When preferences are homothetic, utility can be expressed in terms of current consumption and a variable that captures all information about future opportunities. We use this observation to express the differential equation that characterizes utility as a restriction on the information variable...
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This paper applies a factor model to the study of risk sharing among U.S. states. The factor model makes it possible to disentangle movements in output and consumption due to national, regional, or state-specific business cycles from those due to measurement error. The results of the paper...
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This paper presents tractable and efficient numerical solutions to general equilibrium models of asset prices and consumption where the representative agent has recursive preferences. It provides a discrete-time presentation of the approach of Fisher and Gilles (1999), treating continuous-time...
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be interpreted as either a wage income stream or a stochastic endowment flow. We obtain a complete and original solution …
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We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...
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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … reduction in income was removed in the third policy period. These two reforms allow a causal identification of the effect of in …
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understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income … the traditional and emerging perspectives on the health-income relationship, this literature review presents a non …
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We reexamine the claim that the effect of income on subjective well-being suffers from a systematic downward bias if … one ignores that higher income is typically associated with more work effort. We analyze this claim using German panel … do not find evidence that leaving working hours out of the analysis leads to an underestimation of the income effect. …
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understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income … the traditional and emerging perspectives on the health-income relationship, this literature review presents a non …
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