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city and estimate the contribution of awareness and income on households water purification behaviour. The study finds out … of households can effect this behaviour only when they get higher levels of schooling. …
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households by three income quantiles (lower, median, and upper quartiles) shed new light on the increasing income inequality. The … create a net wealth effect for the aggregate of households. …
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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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The composition of households frequently change due to births, deaths, divorces, marriages, the departure of children … in household composition is not a major cause of chronic poverty. Similarly, it finds no evidence that households change …, households with a single female without children have the lowest probability of being either chronically poor or vulnerable …
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In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we propose that population plays a similar role in...
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extended families. The extended family in this paper consists of two households, the rural-origin and its urban … countries which suggests the emergence of spatially separated but economically linked rural and urban households - expanded or … within households sustain the migrant in case of unemployment. The economic tie linking the two households is remittances …
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in agrarian structure and rural economy particularly increased in landless households, declined in share cropping and …
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We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial organization. We propose basic axioms (decomposability and...
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This paper investigates the trend of the wage inequality and the metropolitan wage premium in the United States during the 1980s. Two distinct sets of literature documented that the wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and the metropolitan wage premium have risen significantly...
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