How Inflation Varies Across Spanish Households

Inflation How Does Inflation Work?

The basic workings of inflationary models are summarized, along with the arguments that strongly suggest that our universe is the product of inflation. I describe the quantum origin of density perturbations, giving a heuristic derivation of the scale invariance of the spectrum and the leading corrections to scale invariance. The mechanisms that lead to eternal inflation in both new and chaotic ...

Tax incidence varies across the price distribution

Traditional treatments of tax pass-through examine the tax incidence, which makes sense when the law of one price holds. However in markets with a price distribution, the tax incidence may vary across the distribution. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

How Households Differ from Families

R.C. Ellickson: The Household is published by Princeton University Press and copyrighted, © 2008, by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher, except for reading and browsing vi...

How Households Differ from Families

Collective Action in Space: Assessing How Collective Action Varies across an African Landscape

This paper develops and applies a new approach for analyzing the spatial aspects of individual adoption of a technology that produces a mixed public-private good. The technology is an animal insecticide treatment called a “pouron” that individual households buy and apply to their animals. Private benefits accrue to households whose animals are treated, while the public benefits accrue to all th...