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Household wealth and body mass index : towards a healthy ageing?
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023
Studying the impact of exogenous wealth shocks on health-related outcomes can help policymakers in the design and … moderate physical activity, and increases the amount spent on eating out. These results suggest that large increases in wealth …
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COVID-19 labour market shocks and their inequality implications for financial wellbeing
Botha, Ferdi; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; New, Sonja C. de; … - 2020
and inequality. …
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The evolution of inequality in Latin America in the 21st century : what are the patterns, drivers and causes?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Rojas Lozano, Daniel - 2017
century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112403
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Pandemic buying : Covid-19 and purchasing behaviour of French households
Lorey, Thierry; Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid - 2022
In this study, we use comprehensive French consumer data from the Nielsen ScanTrack retailer panel to analyse the progression of purchasing trends of French households during the coronavirus outbreak. Our results are threefold: First, we observe three temporal phases, namely the normal...
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Contract structure, time preference, and technology adoption
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Smits, Joeri; Sun, Qigang - 2020
Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...
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Consumer debt and poverty : the default risk gap
Bertoletti, Lucía; Borraz, Fernando; Sanroman, Graciela - 2024
This paper examines the disparity in default risk between vulnerable and non-vulnerable populations in consumer lending. We merge an exhaustive registry of loans granted in the financial system with microdata on vulnerable individuals applying for social programs. We estimate the sources of this...
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EU-induced financialisation and its impact on the Greek wage share, 1999-2021
Gouzoulis, Giorgos; Iliopoulos, Panagiotis; Galanis, Giorgos - 2022
This paper examines the determinants of the income share of wage earners in the nonfinancial, private sectors of Greece since its introduction to the Eurozonein 1999. The main outcome of the integration of Greece into the Eurozone has been the financialisation of its economy, which has been...
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How much financial literacy matters? : a simulation of potential influences on inequality levels
Gallo, Giovanni; Sconti, Alessia - 2023
(wealth) inequality levels both at the mean value and along with the distribution value. Using data from the Bank of Italy … Survey of Households Income and Wealth (SHIW)'s 2016 wave - which includes the Big Three questions, a widely used measure of …, engendering often a greater reduction of inequality levels among the most vulnerable groups. As a natural policy implication, our …
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Daughters, savings and household finances
Wen, Xin; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano - 2024
We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is associated with a lower saving rate, consistent with...
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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
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