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Robert A. Pollak
Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis
Publications - 149
Citations - 15654
Robert A. Pollak is an academic researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Human capital. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 146 publications receiving 15079 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert A. Pollak include Institute for the Study of Labor & University of Washington.
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On Second-Best National Saving and Game-Equilibrium Growth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the question whether second-best saving is greater or smaller than first-best savings when given future saving is non-optimal from the standpoint of the present generation.
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Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage
Shelly Lundberg,Robert A. Pollak +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review a number of simple bargaining models and relevant empirical evidence, and discuss their implications for distribution within marriage, and conclude that income controlled by husbands and wives does have different effects on family behavior.
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Habit Formation and Dynamic Demand Functions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formulate a model of consumer behavior based on habit formation, beginning with a specific class of demand functions derived from the modified Bergson family of utility functions, and then postulate that the parameters of these utility functions and the corresponding demand functions are briefly summarized in Section 1.
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Demographic variables in demand analysis
Robert A. Pollak,Terence Wales +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, five procedures for incorporating demographic variables into theoretically plausible demand systems were discussed: translating scaling and the Gorman reverse Gorman and implicit Prais-Houthakker procedures.