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This paper presents new evidence on the behavior of saving in the world, by extending previous empirical research in five dimensions. First, it is based on a very large and recent database, covering 165 countries from 1981 to 2012. Second, it conducts a robustness analysis across different...
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Consumption is the largest component of GDP. Since the 1950s, the life cycle and the permanent income models have … constituted the main analytical tools to the study of consumption behaviour, both at the micro and at the aggregate level. Since … the literature to estimate preferences is the lack of a ‘consumption function’. A challenge for future research is to use …
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This chapter is concerned with the identification and estimation of models of labor supply. The focus is on the key issues that arise from unobserved heterogeneity, nonparticipation and dynamics. We examine the simple “static” labor supply model with proportional taxes and highlight the...
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This paper focuses on whether households facing economic scarcity tend to change consumption priorities as measured by … feast-related goods, indicating a "feast and famine" consumption strategy. Nevertheless, spending on food with label claims …
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When we talk about the consumption of a food, we must take into account its importance for a balanced human diet, its … national level. The purpose of the paper is to analyze meat consumption in Romania in the period 2010-2020, starting from the …
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Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … changes in consumption. However, this might constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing … the classic Ando-Modigliani consumption function augmented by housing wealth can be deduced. It is shown that the deeper …
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