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Conspicuous consumption and race : evidence from South Africa
Kaus, Wolfhard - 2010
A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent consumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarce empirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African household data and finds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively more on visible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948056
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Vulnerability in a stochastic dynamic model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003 - Rev.
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334363
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household … expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor …, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534135
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household … expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor …, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521158
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Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period … group, we actually find that transfers flow strongly from the elderly to their adult children, whom are typically in the … elderly in rural areas. While households with higher longer-term resources receive on net more transfers, we also find strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413334
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The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Armand, Alex - 2016
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household … expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor …, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984861
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Censored Demand System Estimation with Endogenous Expenditures in Clustered Samples : An Application to Food Demand in Mozambique
Barslund, Mikkel - 2015
We address the issue of endogenous expenditures in the context of a censored demand system by an augmented regression approach estimated with a two-step estimator. An application to food demand by urban households in Mozambique shows that accounting for endogeneity is potentially important in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037958
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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy : Evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2021
interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period … group, we actually find that transfers flow strongly from the elderly to their adult children, whom are typically in the … elderly in rural areas. While households with higher longer-term resources receive on net more transfers, we also find strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320422
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2018
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household … expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor … an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to women increases the expenditure share on food by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865448
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Peer Effects in Consumption in India : An Instrumental Variables Approach Using Negative Idiosyncratic Shocks
Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2018
This paper examines peer effects in consumption in context of a less developed country. Specifically, the question that I seek to answer is whether consumption expenditure of a household is influenced by that of its peers in a less developed country. To examine this question, I use newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916293