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Can self-assessed health (SAH) be relied upon to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. We document this finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions...
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Russia offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market …-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian …
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Russia offers the unique example of a centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market …-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864620
This paper investigates the impacts of export controls in Russia and Ukraine on wheat world market price transmission … during the 2007/2008 global food crisis. Russia and Ukraine aimed to reduce wheat exports induced by extraordinarily high … correction model (MSVECM), we find that the temporary export restrictions induced negative effects on wheat markets in Russia and …
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Significant changes have taken place on the world wheat market over the last decade. Russia, a former net wheat …
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This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Survey that span the two recent economic recessions of 1998 and 2008 to study the effect of declining incomes on household composition. We hypothesize that individuals face a tradeoff between taking advantages of economies of scale and...
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scarce. This paper analyses the domestic market impact of wheat export controls in Russia and Ukraine during the 2007 … contrast our estimation for Russia and Ukraine with Germany and the USA, two countries that did not intervene in their wheat … export markets. An explicit “crisis” regime during times of export controls is exclusively identified for Russia and Ukraine …
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Considering emerging economies like China and Russia, we analyze whether income growth as a major driver of nutrition …. Our results indicate that future income growth in China and Russia will continue to increase meat and fat consumption …
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substantial effects of infrastructure on interregional wheat trade in Russia. Especially, the quality of infrastructure seems to …
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