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Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking of Tomorrow: Income and Risky Choices amongst Young Adults in the UK

Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …

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Gender Differences in Charitable Giving

Piper, Greg; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate tocharitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The last resultgenerally derives from the focus on mean amount given...

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Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Riskand Consumption Inequality

Primiceri, Giorgio E.; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to anincrease in the variance of … repeated cross-section data onconsumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable …

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Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion:A Discrete Choice Experiment in the Health-Care Sector

Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the lossaversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolutesubjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviationrepresents a loss than when the...

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Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Toriyabe, Takahiro - 2022

We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as...

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Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?

Garnache, Cloé; Hernaes, Øystein; Imenes, Anders Gravir - 2022

countries, the effect is broad-based, and similar across income groups. These findings provide a unique lens into the …

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Family Finances and Debt Overhang: Evolving Consumption Patterns of Spanish Households

Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2022

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household-level panel data for Spain, and focus on a interesting period of analysis, 2002-2017, characterized by large variations in leverage, consumption, and asset prices. We find that debt...

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Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2022

collisions. The results are robust to several sensitivity exercises. There is no evidence of effect heterogeneity by income and …

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Famous after Death: The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022

In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play any role. In the market for books, we investigate if – in contrast to the standard model – the...

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The Downward Spiral

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022

There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of recreational opioid usage....

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