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The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global …
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“An excess of everything is bad”. This famous old proverb fits well with the current condition of Australian household … debt that is continuously rising. Research in Australia’s household indebtedness is scarce and strategies to control the … rising household debt remain contentious. The government of Australia has introduced financial literacy and financial …
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This study investigates intrahousehold risk preferences in household portfolio decision-making. Most household finance … data are collected at the household level, and it is challenging to come up with an explanation of risk-taking decisions … and have a direction on the within-household bargaining mechanisms. We provide these challenging pieces of evidence by …
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This study explores the contrasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries in Australia. Considering all daily announced information, we analyzed the diverse impacts of COVID-19 on the sectoral stock returns from 26 January to 20 July 2020. Sixteen out of twenty examined stock...
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instability level of the United States household during the pandemic has not been as high as that during the 2007 crisis and the …
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The decision-making processes and outcomes of male and female household heads differ due to gender-based differences in … preferences. In this paper, we assess the impact of this heterogeneity on household healthcare consumption in Thailand. Past … studies modeling healthcare expenditures using household survey data used a gender dummy variable in regression models to …
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in consumption at local commercial places during the early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era. Since using aggregate …
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Since the move to quasi-federalism in the 1990s, different territorial welfare mixes on adult social care (ASC) have emerged in the four nations of the UK. This study explores policy actors’ views on their effectiveness in the pandemic with reference to the role of institutions, trust and...
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coronavirus pandemic would happen and damage the global economy. Resilience to financial shocks is crucial for households as … reliable. Accessibility to financial information through informal sources (having a household member working in the financial …
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