Search Results - subject:"consumption aggregate"

Households in Transit: COVID-19 and the Changing Measurement of Welfare

Caron, Laura; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic placed new constraints and prices on commuting to work around the world. However, traditional methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered these changes. First, we present theory showing...

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Households in transit : COVID-19 and the changing measurement of welfare

Caron, Laura; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2022

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International comparisons of poverty in South Asia

Islam, Tommoy T. M.; Newhouse, David Locke; … - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 1, pp. 142-175

This paper explores the methodological differences underlying the construction of the national consumption aggregates that are used to estimate international poverty rates for South Asian countries. The analysis draws on a regional dataset of standardized consumption aggregates to assess the...

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International comparisons of poverty in South Asia

Islam, TM Tonmoy; Newhouse, David Locke; … - In: Asian development review 38 (2021) 1, pp. 142-175

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821283

Predicting stock market movements with a time-varying consumption-aggregate wealth ratio

Chang, Tsangyao; Gupta, Rangan; Majumdar, Anandamayee; … - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 59 (2019), pp. 458-467

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International comparisons of poverty in South Asia

Islam, Tommoy T. M.; Newhouse, David Locke; … - 2018

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Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey

Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

module administered in 1991 and again in 2004. The consumption aggregate includes home produced and purchased food and non … alternative definitions of the consumption aggregate, excluding transfers out). It also seems counter to the theory that the …. First, we access the results using alternative definitions of the consumption aggregate, in particular to the exclusion of …

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