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Education choices and returns to schooling: Mothers' and youths' subjective expectations and their role by gender

by Attanasio, Orazio P Kaufmann, Katja M Published in Journal of development economics (01.07.2014)

“...In this paper we investigate the role of expected returns to schooling and of perceived risks (of unemployment and earnings) as determinants of schooling...”

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Cohort Analysis of Saving Behavior by U.S. Households

by Orazio P. Attanasio Published in The Journal of human resources (01.07.1998)

“...The aim of this paper is to shed some light in the decline in personal saving rates in the United States in the 1980s. For a such a purpose the paper analyses...”

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Limited Commitment and Crowding out of Private Transfers: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment

by Pedro Albarran Orazio P. Attanasio Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.03.2003)

“...This paper studies some empirical implications of models with limited risk sharing due to the imperfect enforceability of contracts. We test whether the amount...”

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Differential Mortality and Wealth Accumulation

by Orazio P. Attanasio Hilary Williamson Hoynes Published in The Journal of human resources (01.01.2000)

“...In this paper, we examine the role played by differential mortality in estimates of life cycle wealth profiles. Our study makes three contributions. First, we...”

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FRANK RAMSEY'S A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF SAVING

by Orazio P. Attanasio F. P. Ramsey Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.03.2015)

“...Ramsey, F.P. (1928). ‘A mathematical theory of saving’, Economic Journal, vol. 38(152), pp. 543–59...”

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The Effect of Individual Retirement Accounts on Household Consumption and National Saving

by Orazio P. Attanasio Thomas DeLeire Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.07.2002)

“...A major debate exists on whether expanding tax-favoured savings accounts such as Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) will increase national savings. Much of...”

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Consumption and Wage Inequality in the US: The Dynamics of the Last Three Decades

by Amin‐Smith, Neil Attanasio, Orazio P Published in Fiscal studies (01.03.2020)

“...In this paper, we look at the evolution of consumption and wage inequality from 1980 to 2016 in the US. We use data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX)...”

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Intertemporal Choice and the Cross-Sectional Variance of Marginal Utility

by Orazio P. Attanasio Tullio Jappelli Published in The review of economics and statistics (01.02.2001)

“...The theory of intertemporal choice predicts that the cross-sectional variance of the marginal utility of consumption is equal to its own lag plus a constant...”

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Inequality in socio-emotional skills: a cross-cohort comparison

by Attanasio, Orazio P Blundell, Richard W Conti, Gabriella Mason, Giacomo
01.04.2020

“...We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using...”

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Modelling the demand for housing over the life cycle

by Attanasio, Orazio P Bottazzi, Renata Low, Hamish W Nesheim, Lars Wakefield, Matthew Published in Review of economic dynamics (2012)

“...We model individual demand for housing over the life cycle, and show the aggregate implications of this behaviour. Individuals delay purchasing their first...”

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THE ASSESSMENT: HOUSEHOLD SAVING—ISSUES IN THEORY AND POLICY

by ORAZIO P. ATTANASIO JAMES BANKS Published in Oxford review of economic policy (01.04.2001)

“...In this assessment we discuss the issues raised by the papers in this issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy in the context of economic models of...”

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Is Consumption Growth Consistent with Intertemporal Optimization? Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

by Orazio P. Attanasio Guglielmo Weber Published in The Journal of political economy (01.12.1995)

“...In this paper we show that some of the predictions of models of consumer intertemporal optimization are in line with the patterns of nondurable expenditure...”

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Consumption over the Life Cycle and over the Business Cycle

by Orazio P. Attanasio Martin Browning Published in The American economic review (01.12.1995)

“...We assess the empirical validity of the life-cycle model using a time series of cross sections and a novel parametrization of preferences. The main findings...”

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Estimating Euler equations

by Attanasio, Orazio P Low, Hamish Published in Review of economic dynamics (2004)

“...In this paper we consider conditions under which the estimation of a log-linearized Euler equation for consumption yields consistent estimates of the...”

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Consumption Growth, the Interest Rate and Aggregation

by Orazio P. Attanasio Guglielmo Weber Published in The Review of economic studies (01.07.1993)

“...In this paper we present empirical evidence on aggregation problems with Euler equations for consumption. Our main results are: estimates of the elasticity of...”

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