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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
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This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
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visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a … that this major national program is likely to fail in making a significant contribution to reducing extreme poverty. We …
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Until now, the dominant belief concerning the relationship between poverty and risk aversion is that the poor are more … poverty. However, both empirical and experimental evidence show no clear pattern such as would suggest that the poor are … from households living in poverty and extreme poverty wherein they participated in a baseline risk experiment that was the …
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This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958078
The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...
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The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865521
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661529
had in specific contexts presents an opportunity to utilize them as tools for tackling a prevalent type of poverty at the … EU level: energy poverty. Recent contributions to the literature highlight the role of inefficient energy behavior as a … significant driver of this particular type of poverty, which is characterized by an inability to afford the basic energy services …
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Social protection programs are needed more than ever during periods of social upheaval, but are also likely to be even harder to implement successfully. Furthermore, social upheaval makes measuring the impact of such policies all the more difficult. We study the impact of a multi-faceted social...
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