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US and European Household Debt and Credit Constraints

Crook, Jonathan; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

This paper uses micro data from four OECD countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands), to assess the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not credit constraints are important for household debt holding. We extend the existing literature in...

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Sukuk Defaults: On Distress Resolution in Islamic Finance

Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Zaheer, Sajjad - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Islamic strictures require investors to share risks with the entrepreneurs they finance. Sukuk (Islamic securities) come mostly in two varieties, musharakah (basically a joint venture agreement) and ijarah (more like an operational lease agreement). Yet defaults did happen, even in the case of...

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Limitations on De-collectivisation in Central European Agriculture

Bezemer, Dirk J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...

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Russian Reforms: the Return of the Peasant?

Bezemer, Dirk J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

Russian agriculture in transition (1991-1998) was characterised by a production collapse due to aloss in quality and quantity of acreage, disinvestments, falling purchasingpower, and increasedimports. Neither traditional agriculture nor the nascent family farm sector havebeen able to ensure...

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Do Organic Inputs in African Subsistence Agriculture Raise Productivity? Evidence from Plot Data of Malawi Household Surveys

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

investigate how organic cultivation techniques contribute to productivity of non-subsidized local maize and what to expect from … techniques for estimating impacts. Productivity of local maize–bean, local maize–groundnut and local maize–nkhwana, each combined … with livestock and chemical fertilizer, is shown to be statistically similar to productivity of fertilized maize mono …

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Investment under Risk with Discrete and Continuous Assets

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Vigh, Melinda - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This paper considers a general class of stochastic dynamic choice models with discrete and continuous decision variables. This class contains a variety of models that are useful for modeling intertemporal household decisions under risk. Our examples are drawn from the field of development...

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On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

Hoogeveen, Hans; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, Gijsbert van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This discussion paper resulted in an article in 'Economic Development and Cultural Change', 2011, 60, 121-154. <P> In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's...</p>

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Making Work pay for the Indebted. The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals

Koning, Pierre - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...

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Who is at the Top? Wealth Mobility over the Life Cycle

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...

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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

Berry, James; Karlan, Dean; Pradhan, Menno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...

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