Natural disasters, mental illnesses, injuries, and crime are all known factors that lead to stress (Casarella 2020). People were in various levels of confinement due Coronavirus over the world, leading job loss inability finance basic living expenses. This study evaluated relationship between income by surveying different socioeconomic groups. All participants took anonymous PSS (Perceived Stre...

Can the Spanish government generate more tax revenue by making personal income taxes progressive? To answer this question, we build a life-cycle economy with uninsurable labor productivity risk and endogenous supply. Individuals face progressive on capital incomes proportional that capture social security, corporate income, consumption taxes. Our is yes, but not much. A reform increases for ind...

Globally, several studies have affirmed that the population of those who are displaced with respect to housing is on rise. Developing nations in continent Africa include Nigeria reportedly not spared this development. Similarly, low-income earners been reported as worst hit global menace. Shanty dwellings, squatter settlements and informal similarly be homes constitute over 90% Nigeria. This st...

Title of Dissertation: PUBLIC INTERVENTION AND HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIOR. Habiba Djebbari, Ph.D., 2004 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Anna Alberini, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor Jeffrey A. Smith, Department of Economics How does the distribution of power within the household affect the nutrition of its members? In 1998, the largest social program in rural Mexico (PR...

Purpose The challenge of accessibility to adequate housing in several countries by a large percentage citizens has given rise different programs designed facilitate access affordable housing. In South Africa, the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) was created provides loans low- and middle-income earners. Thus, purpose this study evaluate implication macroeconomic risk elements on perf...

This paper uses individual tax returns micro data from 1960 to 1997 to analyze whether taxpayers bunch at the kink points of the U.S. income tax schedule generated by jumps in marginal tax rates. Clear evidence of bunching is found only at the threshold of the first tax bracket where tax liability starts. Evidence for other kink points is weak or null. The large jumps in marginal tax rates crea...

Utah ranks first in the nation in the number of consumer bankruptcies per household. This study describes 2,567 Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Utah in 1997. Median debt level was $31,981 for Chapter 7 and $41,626 for Chapter 13 cases. While Utah boasts a high proportion of Chapter 13 repayment plans, only 10.8% of these cases were successfully completed. D...