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The importance of product reformulation versus consumer choice in improving diet quality

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2014

Improving diet quality has been a major target of public health policy. Governments have encouraged consumers to make healthier food choices and firms to reformulate food products. Evaluation of such policies has focused on the impact on consumer behaviour; firm behaviour has been less well...

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Partial insurance, information and consumption dynamics

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2002

This paper uses panel data on household consumption and income to evaluate the degree of insurance to income shocks …. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special … cases of self-insurance and the complete markets assumption. We assess the degree of insurance over and above self-insurance …

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Partial insurance, information and consumption dynamics

Blundell, Richard W. - 2002

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The housing wealth effect : quasi-experimental evidence

Kessel, Dany; Tyrefors, Björn; Vestman, Roine - 2018

We exploit a quasi-experiment that occurred in Stockholm in 2007 to provide new evidence on the magnitude of the housing wealth e.ect. Stockholm's smaller city airport was expected to close in 2011 but its operating contract was unexpectedly renewed after political negotiation behind closed...

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Household debt, consumption, and income inequality

Berisha, Edmond; Meszaros, John - In: International economic journal 32 (2018) 2, pp. 161-176

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Explaining intra-monthly consumption patterns : the timing of income or the timing of consumption commitments?

Vellekoop, Nathanael - 2018

consumption commitment for most households { their monthly rent or mortgage payment. I find that non-durable and food spending … weekly, biweekly and monthly income streams but the same timing of rent/mortgage payments have very similar consumption …

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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...

Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011

In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....

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The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2003

This paper examines the effects of union decline in Britain on changes in earnings dispersion between 1983 and 1995. As part and parcel of the exercise, the effects of changes in the wage gap and the variance gap are also calculated. Detailed findings are provided by gender and broad sector,...

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Can money change who we are? estimating the effects of unearned income on measures of incentive-enhancing personality

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M. - 2011

The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity...

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Savings, investments, debts and psychological well-being in married and cohabiting couples

Kan, Man-Yee; Laurie, Heather - 2010

This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in savings, investments and debts by couple members, and...

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