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Consumption inequality and partial insurance
Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2004
This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the … degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent and transitory income shocks. We find some partial insurance of permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292960
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Partial insurance, information and consumption dynamics
Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2002
This paper uses panel data on household consumption and income to evaluate the degree of insurance to income shocks …. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special … cases of self-insurance and the complete markets assumption. We assess the degree of insurance over and above self-insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293078
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Income Shocks and Household Risk-Coping Strategies: Evidence from Rural Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Wainwright, Fiona - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2011
the presence of insurance and saving instruments. Third, we consider savings and liquid asset holdings as a form of self-insurance … with insurance claims serving to alleviate the depletion of livestock holdings in the event of insurable idiosyncratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861815
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030472
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020 - Current version: August 22, 2020
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433427
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866354
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866724
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance … 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688539
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699979