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Household credit, especially for mortgages, has doubled over the past years in the new European Union member countries …, raising concerns about the economic and social consequences of household indebtedness in the event of a macroeconomic crisis …. Using household survey data for 2005, 2006, and 2007 for both old and new European Union members, this paper assesses the …
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household survey data. Data on milk off-take for human consumption are difficult to collect in household surveys for several … result, the quantification and valuation of milk off-take is particularly difficult in household surveys, introducing … possibly severe biases in the computation of full household incomes and farm sales, as well as in the estimation of the …
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Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …
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This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...
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transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly … health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household …. Cash transfers to fathers also yield relatively more household investment in livestock, cash crops, and improved housing …
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This paper evaluates the impact of access to credit from banks and other financial institutions on household welfare in … Mauritania. Micro-level data from a 2014 household survey are used to evaluate the relationship between credit access, a range of … household characteristics, and welfare indicators. To address potential endogeneity issues, the household isolation level is …
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of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places …? (both rural and urban) below the district level. The analysis disentangles the contributions household characteristics and … locations make to labor earnings, proxied by nominal household expenditure per capita. The paper shows that one-third of the …
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This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other...
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While there are many positive societal implications of increased female labor force opportunities, some theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman's risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a dataset collected in peri-urban Dhaka, this analysis...
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This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked...
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