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We document new facts on the dynamics of male wages and earnings, household earnings, and before- and after-tax income … Netherlands. Family and government insurance reduce, but do not eliminate non-linearities in household disposable income by age … relatively high at the beginning and end of one's working life, and for those in the lower and upper parts of the income …
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This paper examines how labor income volatility and social security benefits can influence lifecycle household … annuities, and stocks as well as bonds. Higher labor income uncertainty and lower old-age benefits boost demand for stable … income in retirement, but also when young. In addition, a declining equity glide path with age is appropriate for the worker …
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household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra …
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We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household … subset was offered a simplified procedure to purchase a household connection on credit (at a zero percent interest rate … located fairly close to their homes), household connections did not lead to any improvement in the quality of the water …
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service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …
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We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in … their share of aggregate income. In the U.S., since top income shares began to rise rapidly in the early 1980s, incomes of … those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution have averaged 14 times average income and been 2.4 times more cyclical …
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with similar tenants. We link the tenants to their tax records to obtain information on demographics, income, mobility … negative income shocks, evidencing a collateral effect …
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impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …
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1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as …
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