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Explaining the Income and Consumption Effects of COVID in India
Gupta, Arpit; Malani, Anup; Woda, Bartek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …, that reservation wages fell, implying that the risk of COVID did not reduce the value of employment. Third, we find that …
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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2008
China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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Consumption fluctuations and welfare : evidence from China
Ho, Chun-yu; Ho, Wai-yip Alex; Li, Dan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 38 (2010) 9, pp. 1315-1327
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How does public assistance affect family expenditures? : the case of urban China
Gao, Qin; Zhai, Fuhua; Garfinkel, Irwin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 38 (2010) 7, pp. 989-1000
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How urban segregation distorts Chinese migrants' consumption?
Chen, Binkai; Lu, Ming; Zhong, Ninghua - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 70 (2015), pp. 133-146
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Does welfare enable family expenditures on human capital? : evidence from China
Gao, Qin; Zhai, Fuhua; Yang, Sui; Li, Shi - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 219-231
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Consumption and vulnerability among foragers and horticulturalists in the rainforest of Honduras
Wong, Grace Y.; Godoy, Ricardo A. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 31 (2003) 8, pp. 1405-1419
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How Economic Development Influences the Environment
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...
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The effects of fiscal policy on households during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Thailand and Vietnam
Dzung Bui; Dräger, Lena; Hayo, Bernd; Giang Hong Nghiem - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 153 (2022), pp. 1-12
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The Marginal Propensity to Consume in Heterogeneous Agent Models
Kaplan, Greg; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What model features and calibration strategies yield a large average marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in heterogeneous agent models? Through a systematic investigation of models with different preferences, dimensions of ex-ante heterogeneity, income processes and asset structure, we show...
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