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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries
Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how the pandemic is likely to have differential consequences...
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Covid-19 Infection Externalities : Trading Off Lives vs. Livelihoods
Bethune, Zachary A. - 2020
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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Changes in Household Living Arrangements 1950-76
Michael, Robert T. - 1980
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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FDI and Inequality in Vietnam : An Approach with Census Data
McLaren, John - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455750
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Paying the Piper : The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa
Case, Anne - 2008
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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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 …-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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Failure to Refinance
Keys, Benjamin J. - 2014
rates. We estimate the present-discounted cost to the median household who fails to refinance to be approximately $11 …
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The Incidence of Extreme Economic Stress : Evidence from Utility Disconnections
Cicala, Steve - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper uses monthly zip code-level data on electricity disconnections to document the socioeconomic correlates of extreme economic distress among 5 million customers in Illinois. In 2018-2019, customers in Black and Hispanic zip codes were about 4 times more likely to be disconnected for...
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Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors
Calvet, Laurent E. - 2008
participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half …
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The Last Mile of Monetary Policy : Inattention, Reminders, and the Refinancing Channel
Byrne, Shane; Devine, Kenneth; King, Michael; McCarthy, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Under-refinancing limits the transmission of accommodative monetary policy to the household sector and costs mortgage …-effectiveness calculation implies that the average reminder letter generated €42 of mortgagor consumption (€605 per refinancing household). Our …
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