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The Socioeconomics of Fish Consumption and Child Health in Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2019
Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records … from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants … of household consumption of all animal-source foods; the socioeconomic determinants of fish consumption, given its …
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Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-Country Demand System
Cranfield, John A. L. - 2016
innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand system using a combination of micro-data from … global demand system, giving rise to country-specific demand systems and an associated expenditure function which, when … level of utility, rather than an income or expenditure-based measure. They use these techniques with a demand system for …
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Are Tobacco Taxes Really Regressive? Evidence from Chile
Fuchs, Alan - 2017
Tobacco taxes are deemed regressive, because the poorest families tend to allocate larger shares of their budget to purchase tobacco. However, as taxes also discourage tobacco use, some of the most adverse effects, including higher medical expenses, lower life expectancy at birth, added years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961225
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Tobacco Taxation Incidence : Evidence from the Russian Federation
Fuchs, Alan - 2018
Despite the well-known positive effects of tobacco taxes on health outcomes, policy makers avoid relying on such taxes because of their possible regressive impact. Using an extended cost-benefit analysis to estimate the distributional effect of cigarettes in the Russian Federation, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908756
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Does Energy Consumption Respond to Price Shocks? Evidence from a Regression-Discontinuity Design
Bastos, Paulo - 2017
This paper exploits unique features of a recently introduced tariff schedule for natural gas in Buenos Aires to estimate the short-run impact of price shocks on residential energy utilization. The schedule induces a nonlinear and non-monotonic relationship between households' accumulated...
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Price Elasticity of Nonresidential Demand for Energy in South Eastern Europe
Iimi, Atsushi - 2017
-intensive industries are faced with the challenge of the weakening demand for their outputs. This paper casts light on the relationship … between the price and the demand for energy. Based on firm level data, it is shown that the price elasticity of industrial … energy demand is about -0.4 on average. There are a number of data issues to interpret the results correctly. But Albania and …
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The Price Elasticity of African Elephant Poaching
Do, Quy-Toan - 2020
The objective of this paper is to provide an estimate of the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. Ivory being a storable commodity subjects its price to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition, hence allowing identification of the supply curve. The price of gold, one of many...
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Tobacco Price Elasticity and Tax Progressivity in Moldova
Fuchs, Alan - 2018
rich. This paper estimates the tobacco price elasticity of demand for Moldova by income decile and undertakes an extended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928587
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Digital Platforms and the Demand for International Tourism Services
Lopez Cordova, Jose Ernesto - 2020
Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange and employment across developing economies. A scant literature has explored the relationship between tourism and the advent of the internet. This paper contributes to the tourism-trade literature and studies the empirical relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841603
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The Role of Income and Substitution in Commodity Demand
Baffes, John - 2020
This paper presents estimates of time-varying income elasticities of demand for energy and metal commodities. The … estimates confirm that as income rises, demand growth for industrial commodities slows and eventually plateaus. Indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843248