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countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …
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Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …
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This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...
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This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
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random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
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rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …
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factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …
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state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …
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states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …
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resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same …
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