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electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without … income and children's home studying become insignificant if regional differences are accounted for. -- rural electrification …
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wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …
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In this paper, we document that households’ consumption expenditures depend on their expected earnings - even after controlling for realized earnings and wealth. To explain this evidence, we develop and structurally estimate a standard-incomplete markets model in which rational households...
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paper adds to existing research on exits from poor neighbourhoods by focusing on the effects of income increase on … residential mobility. We analyse intra-urban residential mobility from low-income neighbourhoods into non-low-income … the 2004–2014 period for the full Finnish population, allowing a dynamic analysis of changes in income and neighbourhood …
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government expenditures (including Social Security and income assistance). Together, the reduction in smoking and the rise in …
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In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …
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market and non-market income as well as taxes and social security contributions. This income portfolio analysis is based on … have an even better relative income position than the autochthonous West German population. In general, we confirm the well … profit slightly. This is due to above average non-market income of "pure" immigrants. However, East Germans are still much …
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hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …
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age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …
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is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …
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