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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom

Klasen, Stephan - 2012

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and …

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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2013

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World : Evidence from China

de Brauw, Alan - 2014

In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for poorer households...

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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

Démurger, Sylvie - 2016

This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of remittances sent to rural households on...

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Oportunidades : Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues

Angelucci, Manuela - 2009

In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the estimation of treatment effects. We discuss the comparability of treatment and control areas,...

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Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices

Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018

In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is different for singles and individuals living in couples. To fulfill this aim, we test the impact of personality on preferences for different commodities using the German...

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Monetary Policy Transmission to Consumer Financial Stress and Durable Consumption

Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2019

We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation in household exposure to interest rates generated by...

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Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China

Jinkins, David Carson - 2014

I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's...

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Understanding Chinese Consumption : The Impact of Hukou

Dreger, Christian - 2014

The Chinese growth miracle was based on exports and investment in recent years. While strong output growth has been maintained even during the financial crisis, the imbalances within the country increased. To return to a more sustainable path of development, policies are directed to improve the...

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Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures between Paydays

Huffman, David; Barenstein, Matias - 2021

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi-hyperbolic discounting. However, the hyperbolic model predicts that credit...

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