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Intrahousehold distribution in migrant-sending families
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Perali, Federico; Piccoli, Luca - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències … - 2014
This study proposes a novel approach for estimating the rules governing the distribution of resources among wife, husband and children, using a complete collective demand system with individual Engel effects. The model contributes to the literature by explicitly modeling intrahousehold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934842
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Intrahousehold distribution in migrant-sending families
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Perali, Federico; Piccoli, Luca - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
This study proposes a novel approach for estimating the rules governing the distribution of resources among wife, husband and children, using a complete collective demand system with individual Engel effects. The model contributes to the literature by explicitly modeling intrahousehold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098382
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Second agriculture in Belarus and Ukraine:subsistence or leisure?
Yemelyanau, Maksim - Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center - 2009
In many post-Soviet countries, more than half of all households use small land plots to produce significant agricultural output even though their members have paid jobs or collect state pensions. Existing studies suggest that in Russia such “second agriculture” helps smooth consumption....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726655
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The Gender Gap in Education in Eritrea in 1991-1998; A Missed Opportunity?
Comenetz, Joshua; Bulir, Ales; Brixiova, Zuzana - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper shows that during the 1990s, and before the 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea, the gender gap in education in Eritrea has widened on the national level, and large regional disparities have persisted. The gender gap appears to be linked to lower female teacher participation and limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248305
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia Danzer (née … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761796
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Social Aspects of Crisis Effects on Households: The Case of Ukraine
Krasnikova, Larysa; Osinkina, Olena; Podvysotskaya, Tamara - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2012
The paper investigates the effect of crisis on households’ welfare and severity of poverty in Ukraine. We use Ukrainian Household Survey for three years – 2006, 2009, and 2010 that allows us to investigate separately economic conditions before, during and after the crisis. Welfare in our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820257
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Private Household Transfers and Poverty Alleviation in Rural India
Lal, Deepak; Sharma, Anuj - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 3 (2009) 2, pp. 97-112
A transfer function for private household transfers in rural India is estimated from the National Council of Applied Economic Research's (NCAER's) ARIS-REDS survey for 1998–99. It is found that till a threshold, income (close to the rural poverty line) transfers are altruistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011136584
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Child Gender and Parental Borrowing: Evidence from India
Szafarz, Ariane; Agier, Isabelle; Guérin, Isabelle - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
The unequal treatment of children is not gender neutral from the parent side. Our results show that women try to compensate through debt for the unbalanced situation faced by their daughters compared to their sons. However, the lack of symmetry between mothers' and fathers' financial situations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293319
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Child gender and parental borrowing: Evidence from India
Agier, Isabelle; Guérin, Isabelle; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 363-365
Discrimination against girls is well-documented, especially in Asia. We show that women try to level the playing field for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality across generations.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010576487
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Child Gender and Parental Borrowing: Evidence from India
Szafarz, Ariane; Agier, Isabelle; Guérin, Isabelle - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2012
Discrimination against girls is well-documented, especially in Asia. We show that women try to level the playing field for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality across generations.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186248