Grimm, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
of consumption units in the household is reduced. Using data for Indonesia, I show that the economic costs related to the … death of children and older persons seem to be fully compensated by the decrease of consumption units. In contrast, when … these are quite efficient and it seems that in terms of consumption households even overcompensate their loss, although they …