Disagreement in Australian Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty
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Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Gong, Xiaodong; Venn, Danielle
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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 or individual (as opposed to household) views of financial difficulty. We...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Breunig, Robert | |
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dc.contributor.author | Cobb-Clark, Deborah | |
dc.contributor.author | Gong, Xiaodong | |
dc.contributor.author | Venn, Danielle | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-07T22:53:55Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1569-5239 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/27934 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 or individual (as opposed to household) views of financial difficulty. We find limited evidence that for some couples information asymmetries contribute to explaining disagreement about 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. | |
dc.publisher | Springer | |
dc.source | Review of Economics of the Household | |
dc.subject | Keywords: Household finances; Material hardship; Survey methodology | |
dc.title | Disagreement in Australian Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 5 | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 140299 - Applied Economics not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u8410019xPUB54 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Breunig, Robert, College of Business and Economics, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Cobb-Clark, Deborah, College of Business and Economics, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Gong, Xiaodong, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Venn, Danielle, Commonwealth Department of Employment and Workplace Relations | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 59 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 82 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11150-007-9005-2 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-07T12:44:49Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-33947389139 | |
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