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A flexible labor margin allows households to absorb shocks to asset values with changes in hours worked as well as changes in consumption. This ability to partially offset wealth shocks by varying hours of work can significantly alter the household's attitudes toward risk, as shown in Swanson...
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reductions across industries associated with the BTA and differences in industry employment shares across Vietnamese provinces … adolescents (15 to 18) and young adults (19 to 29). The BTA also increased household expenditures, slightly decreased employment … among nonmigrant adults and increased employment among migrant adults. Among adolescents, enrolment increased among non …
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We examine the impact of temperature during the growing season on household diets in the subsequent year in rural India …
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patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …
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We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the … incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …, that reservation wages fell, implying that the risk of COVID did not reduce the value of employment. Third, we find that …
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experiment created by the phased roll out of a social health insurance program for the poor in India. We estimate the impact of …
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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …
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persistence is that treated households take better advantage of opportunities to diversify into lucrative wage employment …
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the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011-2012) with …
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