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Are the Japanese unique? : evidence from household saving and bequest behavior

Horioka, Charles - 2016

Japan's household saving rate showed great volatility, was often low and even negative, and was high only during the 25-year … trends over time in, Japan's household saving rate via various socioeconomic and policy variables. This seems to suggest that …

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Surveying the Aftermath of the Storm : Changes in Family Finances from 2007 to 2009

Bricker, Jesse - 2011

In 2009, the Federal Reserve Board implemented a survey of families that participated in the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to gain detailed information on the effects of the recent recession on all types of households. Using data from the 2007-09 SCF panel, we highlight the variation in...

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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households

Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020

We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...

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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households

Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2018

Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...

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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households

Roth, Anja - 2019

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Heterogeneous Effects of Information on Household Behaviors to Improve Water Quality

Brown, Joe - 2014

Providing information about health risks only sometimes induces protective action. This raises questions about whether and how risk information is understood and acted upon, and how responses vary across contexts. We stratified a randomized experiment across two periurban areas in Cambodia,...

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Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation

Cremer, Helmuth - 2015

information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household's total …

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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

with household bargaining explanations. For couples with children, improved women’s household bargaining position is …

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Intrahousehold welfare

Fafchamps, Marcel - 2012

Using an unusually comprehensive dataset from rural Ethiopia, we look for systematic relationships between bargaining power and various dimensions of intrahousehold welfare. Our results confrm some of the results previously found in the literature. We find that the relative nutrition of spouses...

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Estimating the Endogenously Determined Intrahousehold Balance of Power and its Impact on Expenditure Pattern : Evidence from Nepal

Ray, Ranjan - 2016

The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying … household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the … determined and simultaneously estimated with the household outcomes. The authors present Nepalese evidence that suggests that a …

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