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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452217
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Results from the first wave
Europäische Zentralbank / Eurosystem Household Finance … - 2013
This report summarises key stylised facts from the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption … 62,000 households. The report presents results on household assets and liabilities, income, and indicators of consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664034
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Measuring trends in leisure : the allocation of time over five decades
Aguiar, Mark (contributor); Hurst, Erik (contributor) - 2006 - This version: January 2006
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time. We document that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we document that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003286734
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Parting with "blue monday" : preferences in home production and consumer responses to innovations
Witt, Ulrich; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2011
How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236027
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Spousal Bargaining Power and Consumption of Married Couples in the US : Evidence from Scanner Data
Ahn, So Yoon; Koh, Yu Kyung - 2022
This paper studies how spousal bargaining power affects consumption patterns of married households in the US, using a … children. For singles, we do not find statistically meaningful effects of relative potential wage on any of their consumption … outcomes, which strengthens the interpretation that the relative wage only affects couples’ consumption decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292547
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Identification of random resource shares in collective households without preference similarity restrictions
Dunbar, Geoffrey R.; Lewbel, Arthur; Pendakur, Krishna - 2017
for assessing individual material well-being, inequality and poverty. They are difficult to identify because consumption … is measured typically at the household level, and many goods are jointly consumed, so that individual-level consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777995
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The effect of joint custody on marriage and divorce
Halla, Martin - 2009
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879348
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By what measure? : family time devoted to children in the U.S.
Folbre, Nancy; Yoon, Jayoung; Finnoff, Kade; Fuligni, … - 2004
We argue that previous research on time devoted to child care has devoted insufficient attention to the definition and conceptualization of care time. Three separate problems are evident. First, the conventional focus on explicit activities with children distracts attention from the larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527217
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The effect of joint custody on family outcomes
Halla, Martin - 2011 - Last update: 2011/04/19
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238480