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Berg, Kristoffer; Håvarstein, Morten; Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2024

There is no consensus on how to measure social welfare and inequality when households have different needs. As we show, a dilemma emerges between holding households responsible for their needs or compensating them. This dilemma is of first-order importance for social welfare, but generally plays...

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Sri Lankan households a decade after the Indian Ocean tsunami

De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2016

We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years … increases in household income and consumption in the long-term emerged from our empirical investigation. Deviating from the … nuanced picture with respect to household consumption impacts. We observe a reduction of food consumption and only find an …

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Does inequality matter for the consumption-wealth channel? : empirical evidence

Arrondel, Luc; Lamarche, Pierre; Savignac, Frédérique - 2017

This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household …

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Measuring household inflation perceptions and expectations : the effect of guided vs non-guided inflation questions

Hayo, Bernd; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2023

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Who voted for Brexit? : individual and regional data combined

Alabrese, Eleonora; Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; … - 2018

-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society, the UK's largest household survey, which includes the EU …

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Geography and insolation in 19th century US African-American and white statures

Carson, Scott A. (contributor) - 2008

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Geography, insolation, and institutional change in 19th century African-American and white stature in southern states

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. While much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century biological conditions were related to the physical environment and...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American stature

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century US white statures

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...

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Response to Baker and Fugh-Berman's critique of my paper, "Why has longevity increased more in some states than in others?"

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2009

Dean Baker and Adriane Fugh-Berman have published a critique of a study I performed in 2007, entitled "Why has longevity increased more in some states than in others?ʺ One of the conclusions I drew from that study was that medical innovation accounts for a substantial portion of recent...

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