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Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021889
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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542045
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212755
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Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa
Friebel, Guido; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283587
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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique
Batista, Catia; McIndoe Calder, Tara; Vicente, Pedro C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature has, however, not addressed how the estimation of the impact of return migration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775109
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The Return of the Long-Run Phillips Curve
Graham, Liam; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822071
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A Search Model of Unemployment and Inflation
Lehmann, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822838
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A Tacit Monetary Policy of the Gulf Countries: Is There a Remittances Channel?
Termos, Ali; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency for oil. This paper examines how these dynamics result in a misalignment of the U.S. monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202987
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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a Linear Expenditure System (LES) and an equity component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024603
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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the "flexible" countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
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