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Do remittances increase borrowing?
Ambrosius, Christian; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - 2014
reception of remittances facilitates taking up loans from formal or informal sources among Mexican households and finds positive … and statistically significant effects of remittances on borrowing and on the existence of debts. We address methodological … distance to train lines and labor market conditions in the US as exogenous determinants of remittances. …
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Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda
Baulia, Susmita - 2018
A stylised fact in the development literature is that resource-constrained households in low-income countries invest very little in preventive healthcare. This paper investigates how the households trade off investment in their children's preventive healthcare during idiosyncratic shocks when...
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Household saving behavior and credit constraints in the Euro area
Le Blanc, Julia; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Teppa, Federica; … - 2014
We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new harmonized data set collecting detailed information on...
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The income and consumption effects of Covid-19 and the role of public policy
Suphanit Piyapromdee; Spittal, Peter - 2020
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The interest rate exposure of euro area households
Tzamourani, Panagiota - 2019
We estimate the "unhedged interest rate exposure" (URE) of euro area households. The URE is a welfare metric that captures the extent to which households are exposed to changes in real interest rates, and reflects the direct gains and losses in interest income flows incurred by households after...
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Do couples pool their income? : evidence from demand system estimation for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2019
Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple...
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International migration, remittances and welfare in a dependent economy
Djajić, Slobodan - 1984 - Rev.
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Are remittances a substitute for credit? : carrying the financial burden of health shocks in national and transnational households
Ambrosius, Christian - 2012
The assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit has been an implicit or explicit theoretical foundation of … many empirical studies on remittances. This paper directly tests this assumption by comparing the response to health … to health shocks. This finding is consistent with the view that remittances respond to households' demand for financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526023
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Are remittances a "catalyst" for financial access? : evidence from Mexican household data
Ambrosius, Christian - 2012
In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a "catalyst" for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … fixed effects logit model show that receiving remittances is strongly correlated with the ownership of savings accounts and …
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Overseas employment policy and remittances
Tan, Edita A. - 1984
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