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interest to researchers - in our case, time allocations across market work, household labor, and leisure. Using survey …
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aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving …We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts …
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provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …
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It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better … or in household incomes, fail to account for the large observed increase in the voters' support for the BJP. Non … received and changes in household incomes. Our results suggest that ideology and identity politics were more important factors …
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In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...
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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 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main …
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self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India (Hoffmann et al., 2021) to demonstrate that well-functioning groups …
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We propose a new method to test for efficient risk pooling that allows for intertemporal smoothing, non-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences. The method is composed of three steps. The first one allows for precautionary savings by the aggregate risk pooling group....
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We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We document limited labor specialization within the firm for establishments of all sizes and argue that this is likely due to the prevalence of product customization. We then develop a...
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There has been substantial public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey conducted in 1996 to analyze how the self-employed and wage-earners differ both with...
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