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Labor Domestic Violence and Women's Health in India: Evidence from Health Survey

Pandey, Manoj K.; Singh, Prakash; Yadav, Ram Ashish - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

This paper examines the effect of domestic violence on the health of ever-married women of reproductive age group in India. Micro-level National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) data for the year 2005-06 has been used in the study. We employ disease, body mass index, under nutrition level and...

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Poverty and Disability among Indian Elderly: Evidence from Household Survey

Pandey, Manoj K. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

The paper examines the association between marital status and self-reported health status of Indian adults. A nationally representative cross-sectional data surveyed by National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) in 2004 is used. Results confirm linkages between marital status and health and show...

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RELATIVE RISK AVERSION AND THE TRANSMISSION OF FINANCIAL CRISES

Boschi, Melisso; Goenka, Aditya - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2007

We study how investor behaviour affects the transmission of ?financial crises. If investors exhibit decreasing relative risk aversion, then negative wealth shocks increase the risk premium required to hold risky assets. We integrate this into a second generation model of currency crises which...

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CAN CONSUMPTION SPILLOVERS BE A SOURCE OF EQUILIBRIUM INDETERMINACY?

Alonso-Carrera, Jaime; caballe, Jordi; Raurich, Xavier - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2007

In this paper, we show that consumption externalities are a source of equilibrium indeterminacy in a growth model with … endogenous labor supply. In particular, when the marginal rate of substitution between own consumption and the others …' consumption is constant along the equilibrium path, the equilibrium does not exhibit indeterminacy. In contrast, when that …

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Time Compression

Aadland, David; Shaffer, Sherrill - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

Economists have generally ignored the notion that perceived time may differ from clock time. Borrowing from the behavioral psychology literature, we investigate the case of time compression whereby perceived time passes more quickly than actual time. A framework is presented to embed time...

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How Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: Evidence from Australia

Spicer, Alexandra; Stavrunova, Olena; Thorp, Susan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Households in many developed economies now reach retirement with lump sums of financial wealth accumulated through defined contribution retirement plans. Managing wealth from individual accumulations and public provision is critical to retirement welfare. We study the dynamics of retirement...

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MEANS-TESTED INCOME SUPPORT, PORTFOLIO CHOICE AND DECUMULATION IN RETIREMENT

Thorp, Susan; Hulley, Hardy; McKibbin, Rebecca; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

numerical solutions to a discrete time, fi?nite horizon dynamic programming problem, we simulate the optimal consumption and …

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SCENARIO ANALYSIS WITH RECURSIVE UTILITY: DYNAMIC CONSUMPTION PLANS FOR CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTS

Satchell, Stephen; Thorp, Susan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

We determine optimal consumption paths under a series of returns scenarios for charitable endowments with distinct … tastes over investment risk and inter-temporal substitution. Charities typically prefer smooth consumption paths but are … income/substitution effects whereby a change in future returns influences the current consumption rate. The elasticity of …

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Offsets to compulsory superannuation: do people consciously choose their level of retirement saving?

Shanker, Akshay; Vidler, Sacha - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

Australian employers are obliged by law to make a minimum compulsory contribution as a proportion of salaries into employees’ superannuation (pension) funds. Individuals can also make voluntary contributions on top of the compulsory amount. We examine voluntary contributions amongst two groups...

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Fiscal Stimulus and HouseholdsÕ Non-Durable Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the 2009 Australian Nation Building and Jobs Plan

Aisbett, Emma Kate; Brückner, Markus; Steinhauser, Ralf; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

allocation to estimate the causal response of households' non-durable consumption expenditures to a transitory, anticipated … income increase. Our main findings are that: (i) non-durable consumption expenditures did not react significantly during or …-durable consumption expenditures at the time of the announcement of the fiscal stimulus. …

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