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Parental Preferences and Aspirations for Child Education, and Intra-household Resource Allocation : Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia

Adem, Jemal - 2022

This paper investigates the preference of parents for inter-child allocation of education investment in Ethiopia. It mainly focuses on the roles played by non-price factors of investment in child education. The study uses unique survey and experimental dataset disaggregated by individual...

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Pro-Girl Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation in the Rural Philippines : Revisiting the 'Adult Goods' Approach

Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2014

This paper detects pro-girl (age 5-15) bias in intrahousehold allocation of consumption budget in the rural Philippines using Deaton’s “adult goods” method. Based on additional checks (including those for endogeneity), the results appear to be robust. The paper also finds that a larger...

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Conspicuous Consumption and Race:Evidence from South Africa

Kaus, Wolfhard - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...

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Paying More for Less : Why Don't Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts?

Dillon, Brian - 2017

Despite average per-capita consumption of roughly $1 per day, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts for staple goods. Using transaction diaries covering nearly 57,000 purchases by 1,499 households over two weeks, we find that through bulk purchasing the average...

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Remittances, Informal Loans, and Assets as Risk-Coping Mechanisms : Evidence from Agricultural Households in Rural Philippines

Pajaron, Marjorie - 2015

This paper investigates whether agricultural households in the rural Philippines insure their consumption against income shocks and whether they use migration, remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since these households have limited access to formal insurance...

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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania : An Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment

Tiberti, Luca - 2015

Exogenous shocks to farmers' consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For farm households, under labour market imperfections, such decisions are often interlinked. This calls for non-separable agricultural household models. According to this...

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Paying More for Less : Why Don't Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts?

Dillon, Brian - 2016

Despite average per-capita consumption of roughly $1 per day, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts when buying staple goods. Using transaction diaries covering nearly 57,000 purchases of 22 items by 1,499 households, we quantify the financial loss incurred (and the...

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Why don’t households invest in latrines : health, prestige, or safety?

Groß, Elena; Günther, Isabel - 2014

70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain without latrines analyzing a representative sample of 2000...

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Inequality in emissions : evidence from Indonesian households

Irfany, Mohammad Iqbal - 2015

Although the literature on emission inequality is abundant, this study will differentiate itself by focusing on emission inequalities at the household level due to the disparity in household expenditure profiles. We further separate measures on emission inequality based on household...

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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 …

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