Inferring Labor Income Risk and Partial Insurance From Economic Choices

Econometrica

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2085-2129

  Guvenen, Fatih ^a,b   Smith, Anthony A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous income profiles; Idiosyncratic shocks; Indirect inference estimation; Labor income risk; Partial insurance; Persistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919644350     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9446     Document Type: Article

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