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Measuring living standards with income and consumption: Evidence from the UK
Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012
one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330990
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Uniform sharing
Wolf, Alex - 2019
Collective models have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective models are built for fixed sets of household members and accommodate diversity in household structures with difficulty. Individual-level data on food consumption from Bangladesh...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265328
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Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; de Haas, Ralph; … - 2011
Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
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Can't wait to get my pension: The effect of raising the female state pension age on income, poverty and deprivation
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl - 2017
2016, to estimate the impact of the reform on women's incomes, income poverty rates and measures of material deprivation … for lower-income women. These reductions in income lead to the absolute income poverty rate of women aged 60-62, who are … now under the state pension age, increasing by 6.4 percentage points. However, the increased risk of poverty does not …
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