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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor : evidence from rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860719
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Perspectives on the early retirement decisions of farming couples
Väre, Minna (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
is important to establish the factors determining the exit from farming among elderly farmers. This study analyses the … choice of pension scheme of farmers. The focus is on the effects of farm and off-farm incomes and various offered economic … incentives on farmers' retirement decisions. The results provide valuable information concerning evaluation of existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002453394
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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards : differences between immigrants and the native born
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457361
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Malaria : disease impacts and long-run income differences
Gollin, Douglas (contributor);  … - 2007
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, causes over 300 million episodes of "acute illness" and more than one million deaths annually. Most of the deaths occur in poor countries of the tropics, and especially sub-Saharan Africa....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637802
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Real wage inequality
Moretti, Enrico (contributor) - 2008
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758957
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Subjective measures of economic well-being and the influence of income uncertainty
Schwarze, Johannes (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides evidence that subjective measures of individual well being can be used to study the impact of income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759346
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Reassessing the standard of living in the Soviet Union : an analysis using archival and anthropometric data
Brainerd, Elizabeth (contributor) - 2006
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade -- sometimes rapidly -- from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278940
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Child welfare and old-age security in female headed households in Tanzania
Seebens, Holger (contributor) - 2009
This paper is concerned with patterns of expenditure and child welfare among female headed (FHH) and male headed households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric Engel curves to investigate household expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794027
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892847
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20 years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901217