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Borrowing to keep up (with the joneses) : inequality, debt, and conspicuous consumption
Banuri, Sheheryar; Nguyen, Ha - 2020
The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment … that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous … finance exacerbates inequality. The results point to a vicious cycle of inequality and costly borrowing …
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Consumption in the time of covid-19 : evidence from UK transaction data
Surico, Paolo; Känzig, Diego; Hacıoǧlu Hoke, Sinem - 2020
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Changes in rural poverty in Perú 2004-2012
Morley, Samuel - In: Latin American Economic Review 26 (2017) 1, pp. 1-20
This paper disaggregates the various sources of rural income growth in Peru between 2004 and 2012 and shows that about 80% of the increase came from rising earnings and only 15% from transfer programs. This increase in rural earnings was not led by agriculture. It was mainly because of a general...
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High rural population density Africa : what are the growth requirements and who participates?
Mellor, John Williams - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 48 (2014), pp. 66-75
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Agriculture and development : a brief review of the literature
Dethier, Jean-Jacques; Effenberger, Alexandra - In: Economic systems 36 (2012) 2, pp. 175-205
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Changes in rural poverty in Perú 2004-2012
Morley, Samuel A. - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 26 (2017), pp. 1-20
This paper disaggregates the various sources of rural income growth in Peru between 2004 and 2012 and shows that about 80% of the increase came from rising earnings and only 15% from transfer programs. This increase in rural earnings was not led by agriculture. It was mainly because of a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011885688
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Does the synergy among agriculture, industry, and the service industry alleviate rural poverty? : evidence from China
Yang, Geyao; Zhou, Changchun; Zhang, Jiekuan - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 11, pp. 1417-1421
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Desired Fertility and Children Born across Time and Space
Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2013
With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by...
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Overpopulation
Jackson, William A. - In: Encyclopedia of Global Studies, (pp. 1285-1286). 2012
This article discusses the concept of overpopulation and its practical relevance. Definitions of overpopulation are considered, including approaches centred on sustainability and on average or total welfare. Overpopulation has been linked to the wish for national population policies, which raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014475326
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Desired fertility and children born across time and space
Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2013
With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359657