The Effect of Transfers on Household Expenditure Patterns and Poverty in South Africa.

This paper uses household level unit record data from South Africa to examine the behavioural and welfare impacts of private and public transfers. The study also examines the effect of economies of household size on the incidence of poverty. The exercise is based on a three stage least squares procedure that aloows joint endogeneity of the resource variables along with the expenditure shares.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Maitra, P. ; Ray, R.
Institutions:	School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Subject:	POVERTY \| HOUSEHOLD \| CONSUMPTION

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Series:	Sydney - Department of Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	59 pages
Classification:	I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; C32 - Time-Series Models
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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