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Microeconomic Determinants of Domestic Tourism Expenditure in India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2022
Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation … and trip expenditure decisions together. We control for a large set of explanatory variables broadly classified as … important determinants of trip expenditure in addition to economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The unconditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083728
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Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents' Subjective Well-Being in Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … pronounced in countries where tourism intensity is relatively high, as well as among people living in rural areas. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985676
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Measuring the Shadow Economy : Endogenous Switching Regression with Unobserved Separation
Lichard, Tomas - 2012
We develop an estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict identifying assumptions as previous estimators based on microeconomic data. The standard identifying assumption that the self-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099400
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Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries : A Meta Regression Analysis
Cho, Yoonyoung - 2013
This paper provides a synthetic and systematic review on the effectiveness of various entrepreneurship programs in developing countries. We adopt a meta-regression analysis using 37 impact evaluation studies that were in the public domain by March 2012, and draw out several lessons on the design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083362
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Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty : Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Brück, Tilman - 2013
This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082173
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065314
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155471
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The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System : Evidence from Russia 1994-2015
Grogan, Louise - 2018
Impacts of child benefits and earned incomes on child wellbeing are identified for Russia. To predict earnings, a counter-factual commodity price model is constructed using information on local industrial composition and the evolution of world prices during 1994-2015 for six key commodity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906508
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Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal
Randazzo, Teresa - 2014
This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score …. Therefore, in the decision on how to allocate expenditure, remittances are treated just as any other source of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055224
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The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Armand, Alex - 2016
, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to … women increases the expenditure share on food by about 4 to 5%. To study the allocation of expenditures within the food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984861