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Poor vs non-poor households in Uruguay : welfare differences from food price changes
Echeverría, Lucía; Molina, José Alberto - 2021
changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …
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How technologial potentials are undermined by economic and behavioural responses : the treatment effect of endogenous energy efficiency measures
Meier, Helena; Tode, Christian - 2015
Governments worldwide spend increasing amounts of money on policy schemes to reduce energy consumption and related carbon emissions. We investigate the actual treatment effect of energy efficiency measures and therein compare actual demand responses to technological potentials. Based on a demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294618
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Assessing differences in household needs : a comparison of approaches for the estimation of equivalence scales using German expenditure data
Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Schmied, Julian - 2017
Equivalence scales are routinely applied to adjust the income of households of different size and composition. Because of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation of equivalence scales have been proposed. Until now, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764530
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Analysis of household demand patterns using household data : re-thinking the use of unit values or community prices
Nsabimana, Aimable - 2024
Analysis of household food consumption patterns and welfare requires knowledge of household demand responses to changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519323
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The role of visible wealth for deprivation
Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika; Baliki, Ghassan - 2014
Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that includes unique information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363484
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The Role of Visible Wealth for Deprivation
Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika - 2014
Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that includes unique information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052316
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Willingness-to-Pay for Energy Conservation and Free-Ridership on Subsidization – Evidence from Germany
Grösche, Peter; Vance, Colin - 2008
Understanding the determinants of home-efficiency improvements is significant to a range of energy policy issues, including the reduction of fossil fuel use and environmental protection. This paper analyzes retrofit choices by assembling a unique data set merging a nationwide household survey...
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The Impact of House Prices on Household Debt When Controlling for Home Ownership
Jacobsen, Dag Henning - 2011
We analyze the effect of house price changes on debt secured on dwellings in Norway. To this end, we use both macro time series and micro panel data. With the intention of being both a cross-check and motivation for the micro analysis, we estimate a structural vector auto regression using macro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119811
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The Increasing Financial Obligations Burden of U.S. Households : Who is Affected?
Hanna, Sherman D. - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to examine factors associated with changes in the proportion of households with high financial obligations ratios in the United States. The proportion of households paying more than 40% of income for debt, rent, vehicle leases, property taxes, and homeowners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106275
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Household Demand for Broadband Internet Service
Rosston, Gregory L. - 2013
This paper uses data from a nationwide survey administered during late 2009 and early 2010 to estimate a random utility model of household preferences for broadband Internet service. Reliability and speed are important service characteristics: the representative household is willing to pay $20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091779