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What Linear Estimators Miss : Re-Examining the Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes

Løken, Katrine Vellesen - 2010

This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear relationship, we depart from previous studies in allowing the marginal effects on children's...

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How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income

Mogstad, Magne; Golosov, Mikhail; Graber, Michael; … - 2021

of lottery wins. Our first contribution is to estimate the earnings responses to these windfall gains, finding …-tax labor earnings by about 50 cents, decreases total labor taxes by 10 cents, and increases consumption by 60 cents. These … reducing their earnings by a larger amount. Our second contribution is to develop and apply a rich life-cycle model in which …

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What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?

Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, Ola Lotherington - 2020

A major difficulty faced by researchers who want to study the consumption and savings behavior of households is the lack of reliable panel data on household expenditures. One possibility is to use surveys that follow the same households over time, but such data are rare and they typically have...

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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Eika, Lasse - 2019

We document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the extent to which it differs between countries. Our analysis focuses on the U.S. but also uses data from Denmark, Germany, the U.K., and Norway. We find evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels...

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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Eika, Lasse - 2014

We investigate the pattern of educational assortative mating, its evolution over time, and its impact on household income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of...

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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Eika, Lasse - 2014

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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Eika, Lasse - 2014

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What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?

Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, Ola Lotherington - In: Journal of public economics 189 (2020), pp. 1-24

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