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Power purchase agreements for risk and rent sharing in Himalayian hydropower developments

Jenkins, Glenn P.; Dhakal, D. N. S. - 2008

capacity but are too weak financially to bear alone the risks associated with the development of their hydro resources. India … risks, and sourcing of finance in exchange for the sharing of the economic rents associated with such projects. India …. While India is in a position to exercise monopsonic power in this electricity market, this analysis shows that it is …

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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income

Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008

This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...

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Food price inflation and children's schooling

Grimm, Michael - 2008

I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the...

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Economic downturn and stress testing European welfare systems

Figari, Francesco; Salvatori, Andrea; Sutherland, Holly - 2010

As unemployment rises across the European Union (EU) it is important to understand the extent to which the incomes of the new unemployed are protected by tax-benefit systems and to assess the cost pressures on the social protection systems of this increase in unemployment. This paper uses the EU...

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Protection and the determinants of household income in Tanzania 1991-2007

Leyaro, Vincent; Morrissey, Oliver - 2010

This paper analyses the association between household characteristics' in particular size and location, and for the household head age, sector of employment (and the tariff applicable to that sector) and education - and household income using data from the Tanzania Household Budget Survey for...

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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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Can I just check...? Effects of edit check questions on measurement error and survey estimates

Lugtig, Peter; Jäckle, Annette - 2011

Household income is difficult to measure, since it requires collecting information about all potential income sources for each member of a household. We assess the effects of two types of edit check questions on measurement error and survey estimates: within-wave edit checks use responses to...

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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis

Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012

This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...

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Shocks, income diversification and welfare in developing and transition countries

Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2010

This dissertation takes a welfare perspective to analyze how rural households in developing countries manage risks ex-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan...

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Cross-national differences in income poverty among Europe´s 50+

Hallberg, Daniel - 2006

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in...

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