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forecast errors; the training effect suggests that modest educational interventions can durably improve forecasting skills …. Forecast receipt increased demand for protective masks and increased the responsiveness of outdoor time to pollution. Forecast …
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likely to spend household resources on culture, and their joint consumption of such goods may be a potential reason for their …
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This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …
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: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed child labor supply. We develop a theoretical … model and empirically test for this causality using data from the seventh round of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey. We …
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sectors and over time in order to examine how household consumption responds to different types of positive income shocks …
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …
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We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The …, monotonicity is testable for the model that assumes all household consumption is public …
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The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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As the pandemic spread across the U.S., disagreement among U.S. households about inflation expectations surged along with the mean perceived and expected level of inflation. Simultaneously, the inflation experienced by households became more dispersed. Using matched micro data on spending of...
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