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Determinants of livelihood strategies of fishing households in the volta Basin, Ghana

Amevenku, F. K. Y.; Asravor, R. K.; Kuwornu, John K. M. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-15

The main objective of this study is to identify livelihood strategies of fishing households in response to prevalent vulnerabilities they face within the Volta Basin. Questionnaires were administered to fishery households in the Basin using the multistage sampling technique. A non-hierarchical...

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Impact of urban microfinance on the livelihood strategies of borrower slum dwellers in the Dhaka city, Bangladesh

Hossain, Basharat; Wadood, Syed Naimul - In: Journal of Urban Management 9 (2020) 2, pp. 151-167

This paper scrutinizes the impact of urban microfinance on livelihood strategies of borrower slum dwellers of Dhaka, Bangladesh (with primary and secondary data). The primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire on a total of 200 sample slum households of three slums (Korail,...

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Are Americans and Indians more altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? Evidence from a new international survey of bequest plans

Horioka, Charles Yuj - 2014

This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a desire for dynasty building) and shows that these assumptions have very different implications for bequest motives and bequest division. After reviewing some of the literature on...

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Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016

We use new population-wide register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality. We find that inheritances reduce relative wealth inequality (e.g., the Gini coefficient falls by 5–10 percent) but that absolute dispersion...

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Why do people leave bequests? For love or self-interest?

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014

This paper presents a brief exposition of three theoretical models of household behavior and shows that these models have very different implications for bequest motives and bequest division, surveys previous empirical studies on bequest motives and bequest division, presents unique survey data...

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Inheritance and wealth inequality: Evidence from population registers

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016

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Does the selfish life-cycle model apply in the case of Japan?

Horioka, Charles - 2020

In this paper, we first provide a brief exposition of the simplest version of the selfish life cycle model or hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with...

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The wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Italy: The importance of bequest motives and precautionary saving

Ventura, Luigi; Horioka, Charles - 2020

In this paper, we analyze the wealth accumulation and saving behavior of the retired elderly in Italy using micro data from the "Survey of Italian Households' Income and Wealth," a panel survey of households conducted every two years by the Bank of Italy. We find that, on average, the retired...

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Measuring social capital and innovation in poor agricultural communities: The case of Cháparra, Peru

Hartmann, Dominik; Arata, Atilio - 2011

In the last decades substantive advance has been made in the measurement and understanding of frontier innovation in highly industrialized settings. However, little research focused on the process of learning and the introduction of novelties in smallholder farming of poor agricultural...

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Rubber vs. oil palm: an analysis of factors influencing smallholders' crop choice in Jambi, Indonesia

Schwarze, Stefan; Euler, Michael; Gatto, Marcel; Hein, J.; … - 2015

by large private and public companies, it is expected that smallholders will outnumber large estates in the near future …. For policy formulation it is hence important to better understand who these smallholders are and why they have started to … production areas for oil palm, to analyse smallholders' decision making by combining qualitative, quantitative, and experimental …

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