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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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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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countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique … longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child … controls. Using the fact that the rural tax reform implemented since 2000 created an exogenous variation in family income …
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test for non-linearity in the dynamics of household expenditures and incomes using panel data for rural south-west China …
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Seit Beginn der Transformation haben in den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas (MOEL) die interregionalen Disparitäten zugenommen. Insbesondere die Stadt-Land-Gegensätze haben sich verstärkt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Entwicklung der Disparitäten auf und diskutiert auf der Basis theoretischer...
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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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behaviour of adult children and the past parental death from cardiovascular disease (CVD). It uses parental CVD death as an …
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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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