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. Despite this truism, there is relatively little information available on household consumption behaviour in Hungary stemming … then show how this framework can be used to quantify the effects of price changes and to calculate household consumption …
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ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …
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In this paper, we analyse the effect of food price changes on household consumption in Ghana during the 1990s and … household welfare effect, one that jointly considers (static) first order effects as well as (dynamic) consumption responses, is … using the linear approximate version of the AIDS model with household survey data for 1991/92 and 1998/99. The estimated …
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on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …
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The goal of this paper is to provide an explanation for the remarkable difference in the contemporary Germans positive self-assessment of their living conditions and the development of the most important economic welfare indicators (like GDP or consumption per capita) during the Third Reich. To...
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financial characterization of informal workers in Chile. The paper uses the Financial Household Survey conducted by the Central …
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In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in spite of income paths being similar. We explore several possible causes, including different employment paths, housing ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status,...
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Is financial literacy a substitute or complement for financial advice? In this paper we analyze the decision by consumers to seek financial advice in the form of credit counseling concerning their credit and debt. Credit counseling is an important component of the consumer credit sector for...
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Based on the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops and saving rises … significantly within four years after a child moves out of a household. Per capita consumption of parents is approximately leveled … calibrated life-cycle models assuming a smoothing of per capita consumption for parents with children in the household …
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Choosing a mortgage is one of the most important financial decisions made by a household. Financial innovation has …
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