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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States
Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016
investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484327
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Wives' Work and Family Income Mobility
Bradbury, Katharine; Katz, Jane - 2004
Married women in the United States are increasingly integral to their families' economic wellbeing. With two-earner families becoming the norm, little research investigates the role of wives in family income mobility. How much does a wife's labor market activity matter in her family's ability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263330
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Consumption inequality and family labor supply
Blundell, Richard; Pistaferri, Luigi; Saporta-Eksten, Itay - 2014
In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605701
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A meta-analysis of US food demand elasticities to detect the impacts of scanner data
Jeon, Younghyeon; Hoang, Hoa; Thompson, Wyatt; Abler, … - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 46 (2024) 2, pp. 760-780
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
and fuel taxes on distance traveled. We find that the magnitudes of the elasticity estimates are statistically …
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Scarred consumption
Malmendier, Ulrike; Shen, Leslie Sheng - 2019
We show that prior lifetime experiences can "scar" consumers. Consumers who have lived through times of high unemployment exhibit persistent pessimism about their future financial situation and spend significantly less, controlling for the standard life-cycle consumption factors, even though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126124
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Heterogeneity in Food Expenditure amongst US families : Evidence from Longitudinal Quantile Regression
Gupta, Arjun; mirghasemi, soudeh; Rahman, Mohammad Arshad - 2020
Empirical studies on food expenditure are largely based on cross-section data and for a few studies based on longitudinal (or panel) data the focus has been on the conditional mean. While the former, by construction, cannot model the dependencies between observations across time, the latter...
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Segmenting U.S. Consumers by Food Waste Attitudes and Behaviors : Opportunities for Targeting Reduction Interventions
Li, Ran; Roe, Brian E. - 2023
Reducing food waste in households can be accomplished by changing several types of behavior (e.g., meal planning, food shopping, food storage, food preparation, leftover management) and by leveraging several sources of consumer motivation (financial, environmental, norm adherence). Interventions...
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Measuring trends in leisure: The allocation of time over five decades
Aguiar, Mark; Hurst, Erik - 2006
inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete. … experiencing the largest increases. Lastly, we document a growing inequality in leisure that is the mirror image of the growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280871