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Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...
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model of household preferences for broadband Internet service. Reliability and speed are important service characteristics …: the representative household is willing to pay $20 per month for more reliable service; $45 for an improvement in speed … from slow to fast; and $48 for an improvement in speed from slow to very fast. A representative household would be willing …
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This paper analyzes the wealth effect on consumption in France by relying on two original household surveys. First, it … on household self-assessed changes in future consumption (survey PATER). Besides the direct wealth effect, our results …
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digital divide across socioeconomic groups and territories. This paper exploits data from harmonized household expenditure … levels of household consumption and prices of services are two key constraints. One standard deviation increase in household …
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Using representative household survey panel data from Germany, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance … economic factors, i.e. the expected costs of and revenue from the investment. Our results suggest that household decisions to …
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unique data set merging a nationwide household survey from Germany with regional data on wages and construction costs. To … household-level socioeconomic attributes on the likelihood of undertaking one of 16 renovation options. We use the model … coefficients to derive household-specific marginal willingness-to-pay estimates, and with these assess the extent to which free …
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households. The estimation results suggest that the WTP is not mainly determined by socioeconomic attributes like household …
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-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … whether severe household indebtedness is driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, or the death of … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …
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. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …
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. -- Household saving ; saving incentives ; retirement ; Riester scheme ; coarsened exact matching …
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