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The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James X. - 2021

We investigate how material well-being has changed over time for single mother headed families—the primary group affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including components of consumption, measures of housing...

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Impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on consumption : household data from India

Sanyal, Anirban; Singh, Nirvikar; Kapoor, Rolly - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 211-240

We quantify the impacts on consumption expenditure and the patterns following India's initial sudden lockdown in response to the coronavirus disease pandemic and the gradual relaxation that followed. We use household survey data from a representative Indian state, Punjab. We separate the effects...

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High consumption volatility : the impact of natural disasters?

Auffret, Philippe - 2003

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Macroeconomic disasters and forward-looking consumers : historical evidence and evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic

Pozzi, Lorenzo; Sadaba, Barbara - 2021

in the consumption-income ratio that occur during disaster periods or whether, on the other hand, consumers become more … forward-looking and therefore give more weight to these expectations during disaster times. Our theoretical framework implies … higher during disaster episodes. We check this both for past disasters and the current Covid-19 pandemic through the …

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High Consumption Volatility : The Impact of Natural Disasters?

Auffret, Philippe - 2016

A history of repeated external and domestic shocks has made economic insecurity a major concern across the Caribbean region. Of particular concern to all households, especially the poorest segments of the population, is the exposure to shocks that are generated by catastrophic events or natural...

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Vulnerability to natural shocks : assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - 2019

Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood … results are relevant for policy planning, natural disaster management, and for ex ante vulnerability assessment in Mozambique …