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standards in pre-famine Ireland. The approach is explicitly comparative and makes use of information from America and other …
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We analyze the externalities that arise when social and economic interactions transmit infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Individually rational agents do not internalize that they impose infection externalities upon others when the disease is transmitted. In an SIR model calibrated to capture...
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of FDI on household welfare is more difficult than measuring the effect of trade policy, and may pose a difficulty for … the view of FDI as a general anti-poverty strategy …
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The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income...
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individuals had some form of insurance, which helped surviving household members defray some fraction of funeral expenses. However … observed social status of the household and that of the deceased. Households that cannot afford a funeral commensurate with … consistent with our model of household decision-making …
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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …
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rates. We estimate the present-discounted cost to the median household who fails to refinance to be approximately $11 …
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participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half …
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In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
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