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Income redistribution: how to divide the pie?
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, we elicit preferences of Swiss citizens for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008. Neustadt and Zweifel (2009} provide an estimate of the total desired amount of income redistribution as a share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644924
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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners, people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622243
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You can't always get what you want - East and West Germans' attitudes and preferences regarding the welfare state
Pfarr, Christian; Schmid, Andreas; Ulrich, Volker - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
More than twenty years after the fall of the iron curtain, do citizens from former Communist countries still exhibit attitudes and preferences with regard to the welfare state and income redistribution that differ from those in the West? This paper seeks to answer this question for Germany after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111085
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Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; De Haas, Ralph; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644929
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Socioeconomic factors as determinants of overweight and obesity. The Argentinian case.
Temporelli, Karina; Viego, Valentina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Obesity is a complex medical problem that according to World Health Organization has become a global epidemic. Its … suffer a double burden of disease arising from the coexistence of obesity and malnutrition. In this paper we analyze the … results from the Risk Factors National Survey relating the prevalence of obesity and overweight in Argentinean provinces with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727887
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Impact of Small Group Size on Neighborhood Influences in Multilevel Models
Theall, Katherine P.; Scribner, Richard; Lynch, Sara; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Objective: Although there is a growing body of literature on sample size in multilevel or hierarchical modeling, few studies have examined the impact of group size 5. Design: We examined the impact of a group size less than five on both a continuous and dichotomous outcome in a simple two-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616706
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Labour Market, Obesity and Public Policy Considerations
Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; Athanasiou, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper attempts to investigate the relation among wages, unemployment and obesity and to identify public policies … developed. Our framework tries to capture the relationship between obesity and employment/unemployment by assuming that the … obesity is positively related with employment, then social optimality dictates the imposition of a lump-sum tax on all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615624
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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns
Cruces, Guillermo; Gluzmann, Pablo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001–02) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the inter-temporal and the cross-provincial co-variation between changes in regional GDP and outcomes by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259710
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Do faith-inspired health care providers in Africa reach the poor more than other providers?
Olivier, Jill; Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) commonly have as their stated mission a desire to provide quality health services to all, and in particular a commitment to serve the poor, for example, by providing services in remote areas where there are none, or by making services more affordable for those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260037
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372621