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position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …
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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...
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We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy … for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show … labor within the household in El Salvador. In contrast, after damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes, female migration …
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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 …
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households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the household dies. We develop a tractable …
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More than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity. The UN have proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower cost alternative to investment intensive grid electrification. Using a randomized controlled trial we...
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.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to …
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, household consumption increases following increases in the minimum wage; however, compliance matters. The beneficial pass …
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This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
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methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …
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