Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 585
Cover Image
Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor
Eli, Shari - 2015
patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012388
Cover Image
The Impact of Pre-Marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986694
Cover Image
Long-Term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Sharma, Garima - 2022
This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090779
Cover Image
Assessing the Effects of the Mfa/Atc from Us and World Trade Data after its Removal
Yao, Daqing - 2015
for textiles trade. The benefits from freer trade in textiles and clothing shed light on other sectors that are still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020701
Cover Image
Do Developing Countries Lose from the Mfa?
Trela, Irene; Whalley, John - 2021
This paper provides estimates of both national and global welfare costs of bilateral quotas on textiles and apparel … using an applied general equilibrium model which covers bilateral quotas on exports of textiles and apparel negotiated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245117
Cover Image
International Risk Sharing in the Short Run and in the Long Run
Baxter, Marianne - 2011
International risk-sharing has far-reaching implications both for economic policy and for basic research in economics. When countries do not share risk, individuals in those countries experience fluctuations in their consumption levels that are undesirable and possibly unnecessary. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129220
Cover Image
Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
Parker, Jonathan A. - 2011
We measure the response of household spending to the economic stimulus payments (ESPs) disbursed in mid-2008, using special questions added to the Consumer Expenditure Survey and variation arising from the randomized timing of when the payments were disbursed. We find that, on average,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131507
Cover Image
What Do Aggregate Consumption Euler Equations Say About the Capital Income Tax Burden?
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2011
Aggregate consumption Euler equations fit financial asset return data poorly. But they fit the return on the capital stock well, which leads us to three empirical findings relating to the capital income tax burden. First, capital taxation drives a wedge between consumption growth and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133241
Cover Image
Empirical Evidence on the Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated U.S. Tax Policy Shocks
Mertens, Karel - 2010
We provide empirical evidence on the dynamics effects of tax liability changes in the United States. We distinguish between surprise and anticipated tax changes using a timing-convention. We document that pre-announced but not yet implemented tax cuts give rise to contractions in output,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139130
Cover Image
Is Consumption Growth Consistent with Intertemporal Optimization? Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Attanasio, Orazio - 2010
In this paper we show that some of the predictions of models of consumer intertemporal optimization are not inconsistent with the patterns of non-durable expenditure observed in US household-level data. Our results and our approach are new in several respects. First, we use the only US micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139240