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This research examines the production of quinoa as an option for improving rural incomes in the Altiplano of Bolivia; due to, on one hand, the grain is aligned perfectly to the customs and traditions of work and family of the habitants of this region, on the other hand, international demand for...
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Pakistan exhibit at least no decrease in their savings behavior. We discuss policy implications in terms of developing nonfarm …We investigate the economic response of households to natural disasters in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In particular, we … explore to what extent households adjust their income and employment strategies and savings in response to exposure to floods …
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant redictors of health...
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savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …
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paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We …) the savings of renters that may be considered as would-beowners. We find a significant effect of home equity on the demand … for second mortgages.Savings of homeowners decrease when house prices accelerate. We find no evidence that inc …
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Housing is an important sector of the economy. It has widespread implications for investment, banking, saving and employment. Home ownership has been linked to building social capital and a sense of community. Furthermore housing equity is a significant element of retirement accumulation for...
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sector, of the stock measure of savings (changes in net wealth). The latter estimates are found to be consistently greater … than the flow measures of household savings. Finally a series of adjustments are made to the flow measures of household and …
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pay-as-you-go universal pension. In addition, the model allows for a compulsory private retirement savings scheme …
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income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …
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