poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services … applying ordered probit models and additionally probit models for combinations of them. By doing this on household survey data … from Sri Lanka, there is empirical evidence that household's probability to participate in microfinancial services …

This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in … rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this … paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might increase work by children. It is found that household access to …

income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing … households for 2003 and 2004. The findings imply that projecting food expenditures alone overestimates the amount spent on food …

increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these … two developments. The aim of the paper is to quantify how the trend towards smaller households has influenced the change …

increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between … these two developments. The aim of the paper is to quantify how the trend towards smaller households has influenced the …

to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a … during the "recession transition" almost all households were vulnerable to poverty while almost none were during the …