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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World : Evidence from China
de Brauw, Alan - 2014
that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption … the household. In examining the effect of migration, we pay considerable attention to motivating, developing and …
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Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi : A Gender Perspective
Hazarika, Gautam; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - 2021
's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … female household members improves 0-6 year old girls', though not boys', long-term nutrition as measured by height … may be interpreted as evidence of a positive relation between women's relative control over household resources and young …
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Love on the Rocks : Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence in Rural Mexico
Angelucci, Manuela - 2007
21%; the extra money increase the wife's freedom and security, is spent on individual and household goods, and it crowds …
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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages
Bauer, Michal - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764244
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Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China
Chen, Xi - 2019
China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was designed to provide financial protection for its rural population and reduce economic inequities. Yet the impact of this program is mitigated if those eligible fail to enroll. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857692
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Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China
de Brauw, Alan - 2012
In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution,...
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The Joint Effects of a Health Insurance and a Public Works Scheme in Rural Ethiopia
Shigute, Zemzem - 2017
in livestock, the main household asset, and a 27 percent decline in debt. These results suggest that at least in Ethiopia …
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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare : A Dynamic Analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128568
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Income Taxation of U.S. Households : Basic Facts
Guner, Nezih - 2011
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128832
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Why are Saving Rates so High in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011
-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …
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