household consumption is protected against health shocks. The results suggest that adverse health shocks - captured by negative … nonfood consumption constant in the face of these income reductions and extra medical care outlays? The results suggest not …. For the sample as a whole, both food and nonfood consumption are found to be responsive to health shocks, indicating an …

The distribution of consumption in Moldova implies that changes in workers' remittances, migration, and energy prices … could influence consumption and poverty rates in some unexpected and even counter-intuitive ways. Relatively well-off groups … proportion to their consumption. The consumption of relatively wealthy groups is linked directly to price of natural gas, while …

"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …

Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between … changes and the decision to migrate. The findings show that migration adds 36 percentage points to consumption growth, during … a period of considerable growth in consumption. These results are robust to numerous tests and alternative …

various consumption and investment goods. Contrary to other studies, the author finds that households receiving remittances … actually spend less at the margin on consumption-food and consumer goods and durables-than do households receiving no … remittances. Instead of spending on consumption, households receiving remittances tend to spend more on investment goods, like …