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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to … 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that … the gap between actual and full school enrollment was reduced by 20 percent for girls living in the same household as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677675
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Household Vulnerability to Income Shocks in Emerging and Developing Asia: the Case of Cambodia, Nepal and Vietnam
De Stefani, Alessia - 2022
We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060522
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Quality of government and living standards : adjusting for the efficiency of public spending
Grigoli, Francesco; Ley, Eduardo - 2012
It is generally acknowledged that the government's output is difficult to define and its value is hard to measure. The practical solution, adopted by national accounts systems, is to equate output to input costs. However, several studies estimate significant inefficiencies in government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620981
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Life Expectancy and Income Convergence in the World
Ueda, Kenichi - 2008
There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This paper introduces the concept of the dynastic general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677614
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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil : Evidence From A Social Security Reform
de Carvalho Filho, Irineu - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to … 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that … the gap between actual and full school enrollment was reduced by 20 percent for girls living in the same household as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409070
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Latin America; Highlights from the Implementation of the System of National Accounts 1993 (1993 SNA)
Ramos, Roberto Luis Olinto; Rivas, Lisbeth; Pastor, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
from the use of outdated national accounts base years, downwards biases with household final consumption estimates, and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768868
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Public Expenditureson Social Programs and Household Consumption in China
Baldacci, Emanuele; Ding, Ding; Coady, David; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
household consumption in China. The paper first undertakes an empirical study of the relationship between the savings rate and … then applies a generational accounting framework to Chinese household income survey data. This analysis suggests that a … result in a permanent increase the household consumption ratio of 1¼ percentage points of GDP. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470372
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Is Housing Wealth An 'ATM'? the Relationship Between Household Wealth, Home Equity withdrawal, and Saving Rates
Klyuev, Vladimir; Mills, Paul S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
United Kingdom. Mortgage market liberalization and innovation should reduce household cash flow and collateral constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263776
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Countering the Cycle; The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Korea
Eskesen, Leif Lybecker - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The Korean authorities having taken decisive and proactive fiscal measures to help stem the fallout from the current global economic and financial crisis, with the size of the fiscal stimulus well-above the average response of other G20 economies. In this context, a key question is how effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540935
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Frugality; Are We Fretting too Much? Household Saving and Assets in the United States
Tanner, Evan; Abdih, Yasser - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
Household savings rates in the United States have recently crept up from all-time lows. Some have suggested that a … model predicts that such primary savings will increase, but only temporarily and modestly, as household assets stabilize. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528609