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The effect of product demand on inequality : evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
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Women, children and patience : experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …-oriented choices of households. -- Time discounting ; gender ; children ; experiment ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861619
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India's calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of calorie purchases
Hazarika, Gautam; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - 2020
, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …
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Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018
. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …
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Evaluating and pricing health insurance in lower-income countries : a field experiment in India
Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - 2024
trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, called RSBY. We …
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The welfare impact of price changes on household welfare and inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a Linear Expenditure System (LES) and an equity component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function....
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Debt portfolios
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2011
We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by owner-occupied housing whereas unsecured debt can be discharged according to bankruptcy regulations. We show that the calibrated model matches important quantitative...
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Urban infrastructure and economic development : experimental evidence from street pavement
González-Navarro, Marco; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010
We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on housing values and household outcomes. We find that the provision of street pavement raises housing values by 16% and land values by 54%, according to professional appraisals. Using homeowner...
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Intrahousehold bargaining and the demand for consumer durables in Brazil
Fava, Ana Cláudia Polato e; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - 2013
In Brazil, wives do most of the household work. About sixty percent of them also work outside the household, working a total of about 10 hours more per week than men. Because of this unequal distribution of household work, husbands and wives might have different priorities regarding the purchase...
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Dealer pricing of consumer credit
Bertola, Giuseppe; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Interest rates on consumer lending are lower when funds are tied to purchase of a durable good than when they are made available on an unconditional basis. Further, dealers often choose to bear the financial cost of their customers' credit purchases. This paper interprets this phenomenon in...
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