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The impacts of household water quality testing and information on safe water behaviors : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Okyere, Charles Yaw; Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie; Asante, … - 2017

improvement messages (information). The treatment group was separated into two groups: (1) a school children intervention group … allocation in the delivery of water quality information. The comparison group neither participated in the water quality self …-testing nor received information. The impacts of the experiment are estimated using intention-to-treat (ITT), instrumental …

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Characterizing Households' Large (and Small) Stakes Decisions : Evidence from Flood Insurance

Collier, Benjamin - 2020

We examine the flood insurance decisions of over 100,000 households, using standard expected utility models and rank dependent utility models that incorporate probability distortions. Consumers' insurance choices provide important insights into their risk attitudes. Previous research has...

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The HIV Anticaptory Saving Motive : An Empirical Analysis in South Africa

van de Kuilen, Gijs - 2007

This paper studies the effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behaviour. Two important characteristics of HIV result in opposing forces on savings: mortality increases, which reduces savings, and long-term illness risk increases, which enhances savings. We use a two period life-cycle model...

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Filing Taxes Early, Getting Healthcare Late : Insights from 1.2 Million Households

Farrell, Diana - 2018

For a large majority of American households, tax season brings one of the most significant positive cash flow events of the year in the form of tax refunds. Leveraging data on 1.2 million accounts receiving tax refunds in 2016, we investigate variation in the timing of tax filing across...

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The decline of home cooked food

Griffith, Rachel; Jin, Wenchao; Lechene, Valérie - 2021

The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready-to-eat foods. We consider a simple model of food consumption and time use which captures the key...

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Household Vulnerability to Income Shocks in Emerging and Developing Asia : The Case of Cambodia, Nepal and Vietnam

De Stefani, Alessia; Laws, Athene; Sollaci, Alexandre - 2022

We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to income shocks arising from the Covid-19 pandemic: occupation in Cambodia, self-insurance mechanisms in Nepal, and financial leverage in Vietnam. Occupation and ex-ante income...

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Factors associated with the delay in seeking inpatient and outpatient care services in the Philippines

Capuno, JJ; Kraft, AD; Poco, LC; Quimbo, SA; Tan, CAR - 2017

Despite the country’s policies and programs towards universal health care, health is not improving as well as expected, which suggests that households still face significant barriers to their choice of and access to health care, and their timing of use of health services. Using a nationally...

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Grocery Store Closures and Household Nutritional Choices

Hristakeva, Sylvia; Levine, Julia - 2022

We analyze the impact of a temporary shock to food supply on households’ dietary choices. We use hurricane-induced closures of grocery stores, focusing on temporary closures. Results show that store closures influence households’ purchasing patterns even after the grocery store has reopened....

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Electrical Appliances Moderate Households’ Water Demand Response to Heat

Salvo, Alberto - 2020

Analysis of potentially interconnected residential water and energy demand is sparse. In a 1-in-10 random sample of Singapore households living in apartments, water use per capita declines over the socioeconomic distribution, whereas electricity use rises. Here I show that in this leading Asian...

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Don't give up on me baby: spousal correlation in smoking behaviour

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - 2005

matching or information revealed by others' behaviours, or to endogenous effects generated by bargaining within marriage. A …

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