Incentives, insurance, and the variability of consumption and leisure

C Phelan - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1994 - Elsevier
… such incentive-induced variability can account for the variability we … consumption must
depend on his output to get the agent to work, which leaves the agent less than fully insured

Incentives, insurance, and the variability of consumption and leisure

CJ Phelan - 1990 - search.proquest.com
consumption and leisure vari ability and how variability is affected by changes in the model
parameters. The first subsection simply defines the moments I use to … through the use of com …

Consumption insurance: An evaluation of risk-bearing systems in low-income economies

RM Townsend - Journal of Economic perspectives, 1995 - aeaweb.org
… The last part of the paper focuses on incentive issues, looking at … For example, one can
compare the variability of consumption … to include leisure, so that household consumption is then …

Consumption inequality

OP Attanasio, L Pistaferri - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016 - aeaweb.org
… an incentive to search for the best deals and these incentives … on consumption of one-year
wage changes, the variability of … leisure into three components: personal care, active leisure (…

The intertemporal allocation of consumption: theory and evidence

OP Attanasio - Carnegie-Rochester conference series on public policy, 1995 - Elsevier
… by nonseparability between consumption and leisure. However… utility function and on the
variability of the idiosyncratic shocks. … , there might be strong incentives for young individuals to …

Consumption inequality and partial insurance

R Blundell, L Pistaferri, I Preston - American Economic Review, 2008 - aeaweb.org
… of variation of the variance of PSID consumption is on the left-hand side; that of the variance
of CEX consumption … in preferences between consumption and leisure. This implies that all …

Disability insurance and the dynamics of the incentive insurance trade-off

H Low, L Pistaferri - American Economic Review, 2015 - aeaweb.org
… The main items that are missing are clothing, recreation, alcohol, and tobacco.We treat …
We can then identify the variance of productivity shocks and the variance of measurement error …

Incentives, Insurance, and the Variability of Consumption and Leisure

C Phelan - Financial Services Review: The Journal of …, 1995 - openjournals.libs.uga.edu
… without incentive constraints. On the other hand, I show for the standard stylized models of
repeated agency, incentive-induced variability is an insufficient explanation of the variability in …

Self-insurance in a life-cycle model of labour supply and savings

HW Low - Review of Economic dynamics, 2005 - Elsevier
… This paper analyses the incentives to work and to save over … fall, or if consumption is growing
and consumption and leisure are … of increased variability in leisure leading to leisure being …

Consumption smoothing? Livestock, insurance and drought in rural Burkina Faso

H Kazianga, C Udry - Journal of Development economics, 2006 - Elsevier
… of the household's consumption of goods and leisure, where r vt … -contingent prices of the
good and leisure in period t in history h … We use regression (4) to assess the variation of income …