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We investigate how childbirth affects intrahousehold resource allocation for married Japanese couples. We develop reduced-form and structural-form specifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in...
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In this paper, we present a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both food and non-food poverty thresholds. Although one cannot completely eliminate the value judgments inherent in the construction of poverty thresholds, this model helps to make...
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consumption becomes very large, the consumer tends to aim at a fixed future consumption target. A by-product is a reinterpretation … of subsistence theories of consumption. …
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Although consumption expenditure data is crucial for assessing the level of peoples welfare and calculating important …, we experiment with three approaches to predict consumption expenditure and poverty at household and aggregate level as … simpler alternatives to using consumption expenditure. The idea is not to use these alternatives as a substitute for …
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, and analyzing them separately may yield results that are useful for public policy. Hence, we analyze the consumption … 120,309 households, has been used for this purpose. We found that most forms of tobacco consumption are higher among … consumption were found to be signifcant factors determining tobacco consumption habits of Indian households. The effect of some of …
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foreign exchange reserves, utility-maximizing representative agents decide consumption, capital stock, and labor input, as … a permanent decline in consumption. However, when the tradable sector is capital intensive, the increase may enhance … shortens debt maturity. The results also imply that increased foreign exchange reserves may lead to a decline in consumption …
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The aim of this paper is to examine if tobacco consumption crowds-out consumption of basic needs and whether it has … commodities by the status of tobacco consumption of households. Average per capita per diem intake of nutrients such as calorie … consumption of certain commodities such as milk, clean fuels and entertainment which has direct bearing on mostly children and …
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The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fifteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are largely out of the tax net. Analysis of the price elasticity of various...
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considerable underemployment and where additional demand can create its own additional supply, (b) mobilize domestic savings for …
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The saving rate in Japan has declined rapidly. Analyzing the possible four factors that could affect the saving rate in general, compared with theoretical implications, the data suggest that all elements might have a negative impact on the saving rate during the late 90s and early 00s. Such a...
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