to the income loss associated with a BMI shock. The lack of impact for the insured points to complete insurance against … nonfood consumption constant in the face of these income reductions and extra medical care outlays? The results suggest not … across different groups within the sample. Households with insurance come no closer to smoothing nonmedical consumption than …

and of income losses following a crisis. She tests the validity of "insurance" and "liquidity" models of currency crisis …

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 …