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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason - 2011
position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …
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Intra-Household Negotiation in Ivory Coast : Experimental Evidence from Rural Areas
Dimova, Ralitza; Edouard, Abou Pokou; Basu, Arnab K.; … - 2022
Is the impact of women's bargaining power on the welfare of the household always positive? We address this question by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029932
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Engel Curves, Spatial Variation in Prices and Demand for Commodities in Côte D'Ivoire
Gbakou, Monnet - 2011
This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d'Ivoire. Using data from the 2002 Cote d'Ivoire Living Standard Survey and a theoretical framework developed by Crawford et al. (2003), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128830
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Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
Barattieri, Alessandro - 2010
Nominal wage stickiness is an important component of recent medium-scale structural macroeconomic models, but to date there has been little microeconomic evidence supporting the assumption of sluggish nominal wage adjustment. We present evidence on the frequency of nominal wage adjustment using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141226
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - 2021
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/10013324964
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What Measure of Inflation Should a Developing Country Central Bank Target?
Anand, Rahul - 2015
In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in the context of developing economies, where a large proportion of households are credit constrained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016274
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Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman - 2012
. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household‐level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096446
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Impacts of Covid-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia
Kokas, Deeksha; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; El Lahga, Abdel … - 2021
COVID-19 is likely to have a large impact on the welfare of Tunisian households. First, some individuals might be more vulnerable to contracting the disease because their living conditions or jobs make them more susceptible to meeting others or practicing social distancing. Lack of adequate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314728
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Intrahousehold Distribution and Child Poverty : Theory and Evidence from Côte D’Ivoire
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119290
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Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children : Lab-in-The-Field Evidence from Rural Côte D'Ivoire
Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gbakou, Monnet; … - 2022
We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational expenses - elicited via lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Côte d'Ivoire on the educational progression of boys and girls. Data from 135 couples and their children show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076460