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Rising Mortality Rate in Andhra Pradesh: Towards a demystification
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261013
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Fertility and Birth Spacing Consequences of Childhood Immunization Program: Evidence from India
Santosh, Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756294
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Capital Taxation with Entrepreneurial Risk
Panousi, Vasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper studies the effects of capital taxation in a dynamic heterogeneous-agent economy with uninsurable entrepreneurial risk. Although it allows for rich general-equilibrium effects and a stationary distribution of wealth, the model is highly tractable. This permits a clear analysis, not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493040
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Excess sensitivity of consumption using micro data in the UK
Yu, Ge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The impact of the subjective variables specific to individual financial well being on economic outcomes is considered whether they are able to predict the growth of household consumption. Subjective variables include more information that is difficult to be identified or valued in previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616730
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Long-Run Risk and Hidden Growth Persistence
Pakos, Michal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
An extensive literature has analyzed the implications of hidden shifts in the dividend growth rate. However, corresponding research on learning about growth persistence is completely lacking. Hidden persistence is a novel way to introduce long-run risk into standard business-cycle models of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111345
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Life-cycle consumption: can single agent models get it right?
Bick, Alexander; Choi, Sekyu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In the quantitative macroeconomics literature, single agent models are widely used to explain ``per-adult equivalent'' data, which are obtained at the household level. In this paper we suggest a simple framework to understand the sources of bias when these models are used to make predictions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147683
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Life-Cycle Consumption: Can Single Agent Models Get it Right?
Bick, Alexander; Choi, Sekyu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In the quantitative macro literature, single agent models are heavily used to explain "per-adult equivalent" household data. In this paper, we study differences between consumption predictions from a single agent model and "adult equivalent" consumption predictions from a model where household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854394
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Revisiting the Effect of Household Size on Consumption Over the Life-Cycle
Bick, Alexander; Choi, Sekyu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Although the link between household size and consumption has a strong empirical support, there is no consistent way in which demographics are dealt with in standard life-cycle models. We study the relationship between the predictions of the Single Agent model (the standard in the literature)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110390
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Population Dynamics and Household Saving: Evidence from the Philippines
Mapa, Dennis S; Bersales, Lisa Grace S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The economic growth implications due to changes in the nation’s age structure have been substantial. In the course of the demographic transition, countries experience an increasing share of the working age population relative to the total population and this creates favorable effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560106
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Primary care utilisation and workers’ opportunity costs. Evidence from Italy
De Luca, Giuliana; Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyses the effects of employment condition and work hours on the utilisation of primary care services in Italy. Although the Italian NHS provides free and equitable access to primary care, type of occupation and labour contracts may still deter workers to attend medical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678272