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December 18, 2020

Measuring individual-level poverty in developing countries

New approach accounts for resource sharing and scale economies in large families

  • Bangladesh
  • consumption
  • Development
  • economies of scale
  • households
  • Mexico
  • poverty
  • Alexander Wolf
  • Denni Tommasi
  • Jacob Penglase
  • Rossella Calvi
Research

July 9, 2019

How parents pay for their unemployed adult children

Study analyzes changes in consumption, work and saving habits

  • adult children
  • consumption
  • household
  • income
  • parents
  • savings
  • unemployment
  • Jeffrey Wenger
  • Kathryn Edwards
Research

January 1, 2018

When the unhealthy self kills our New Year’s resolutions

“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin […]

  • behavior
  • consumption
  • food budget
  • health
  • households
  • lifestyle
  • low income
  • New Year’s resolutions
  • preferences
  • self-control
  • Bram De Rock
  • Frederic Vermeulen
  • Kate Smith
  • Laurens Cherchye
  • Martin O’Connell
  • Rachel Griffith
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August 2, 2016

Peer effects! Peer effects everywhere! Whether you are shopping, working, leaving the nest…

Does the social environment influence what individuals buy? Are mothers more likely to work when other women in the neighborhood […]

  • adolescents
  • consumption
  • female labor supply
  • labor market behavior
  • nest-leaving
  • parental home
  • peer effects
  • social environment
  • spending
  • Anders Frederiksen
  • Effrosyni (Efi) Adamopoulou
  • Eleonora Patacchini
  • Ezgi Kaya
  • Giacomo De Giorgi
  • Luigi Pistaferri
  • Nuno Mota
  • Stuart S. Rosenthal
Research

July 27, 2015

“When the going gets tough, the tough major in STEM fields”

The consequences of economic fluctuations are large and long-lasting, and can have an especially strong influence on investment choices. A […]

  • business cycle
  • college major
  • consumption
  • economic environment
  • economic fluctuations
  • graduating
  • investment
  • investment choices
  • labor market prospects
  • recessions
  • STEM
  • students
  • Benjamin J. Keys
  • Brian C. Cadena
  • Erica Blom
Research

January 28, 2015

Savings and political turmoil: The case of the Tiananmen Square protests

Cutting-edge macroeconomic research suggests that political uncertainty heavily influences private consumption. However, evidence on the individual level how households cope […]

  • China
  • consumption
  • massacre
  • politics
  • protest
  • savings
  • Tiananmen
  • uncertainty
  • Kai Liu
  • Rolf Aaberge
  • Yu Zhu
Research

January 7, 2014

Making work more attractive: increase the VAT and reduce labor taxes

What is the right mix between direct taxes, such as personal income taxes or social security contributions, and indirect taxes […]

  • consumption
  • direct taxation
  • employment
  • Germany
  • income distribution
  • income taxation
  • indirect taxation
  • labor
  • microsimulation
  • redistribution
  • social security contributions
  • VAT
  • work incentives
  • Eric Sommer
  • Nico Pestel

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