Disagreement in partners' reports of financial difficulty
By: by Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Xiaodong Gong, Daniella Venn.
Contributors: Breunig, Robert.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1624; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1624
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Households -- Economic conditions.
Description: "We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results indicate that disagreement may be related to the severity of the underlying material hardship rather than to gender differences, information asymmetries, or individual (as opposed to household) views of financial difficulty. This implies that standard surveys which collect information about the household's financial position from a representative individual may fail to completely characterize the nature of material hardship"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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