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Do remittances help smooth consumption during health shocks? : evidence from Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether W.; Ruprah, Inder S.; Sierra, Ricardo E. - 2014
We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …
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Remittances and the impact on crime in Mexico
Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Osorio Rivas, René - 2014
This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is … examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants …. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease in homicide rates. Every 1 percent increase in the number of households …
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Higher inequality in Latin America : a collateral effect of the pandemic
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022
. Surprisingly, we found that the differences in income by education level declined in most cases. Remittances had a modest effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516178
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A framework for ex-ante economic impact assessment of tourism investments : an application to Haiti
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martin; Gachot, Sebastien - 2015
This study develops a linked regional computable general equilibrium and micro-simulation (RCGE-MS) model to assess the regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social accounting matrix for Haiti with a base year of...
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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2015
I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that there are large differences in access across countries and, within countries, between households living in urban and rural areas. Many papers in the public health literature...
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Pension entitlements and net wealth in Austria
Knell, Markus; Koman, Reinhard - 2022
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OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure
Lechene, Valérie; Pendakur, Krishna; Wolf, Alex - 2021
We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar, Lewbel and Pendakur (2013), extended to allow single-parent...
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Household Finance and Consumption Survey : a comparison of the main results for Malta with the euro area
Attard, Silvio; Deguara, Warren; Antonaroli, Valentina - 2020
This paper compares the main findings from the third wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2016 the median Maltese household held more real and financial assets than households in the euro area....
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Buffer-stock saving and households' response to income shocks
Fella, Giulio; Frache, Serafin; Koeniger, Winfried - 2017
We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information contained in the joint dynamics of income,...
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Nonlinear household earnings dynamics, self-insurance, and welfare
De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio; Paz Pardo, Gonzalo - 2018
Earnings dynamics are much richer than typically assumed in macro models with heterogeneous agents. This holds for individual-pre-tax and household-post-tax earnings and across administrative (Social Security Administration) and survey (Panel Study of Income Dynamics) data. We study the...
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