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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587862
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589164
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Inequality and Welfare by Food Expenditure Components
Haq, Rashida; Arshad, Nabeela - In: The Pakistan Development Review 48 (2009) 4, pp. 755-768
This paper examines inequality and welfare in food consumption expenditure in Pakistan. The indices are derived on the … basis of Sen’s welfare function by employing HIES, 2005-06. The empirical results show that inequality and welfare varied … unevenly distributed over the total expenditure in favour of rich families. The price elasticity of welfare indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547046
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The distributional and welfare impact of inflation in Italy
Cepparulo, Alessandra; Gastaldi, Francesca; Liberati, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 2010
impact of inflation has an ambiguous path over the period, yet a large concentration of welfare losses is found in the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649990
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The influence of waiting time on the value of headway time on a ferry service in Norway
Hanssen, Thor-Erik Sandberg; Larsen, Berner - In: Research in transportation economics 82 (2020), pp. 1-6
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Evaluating consumers' choices of Medicare Part D plans : a study in behavioral welfare economics
Keane, Michael; Ketcham, Jonathan; Kuminoff, Nicolai; … - In: Journal of econometrics 222 (2021) 1,1, pp. 107-140
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Policy focus: A robust normative evaluation of India's performance in allocating risks of death
Gravel, Nicolas; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Tarroux, Benoit - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 95-111
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a robust normative evaluation of the recent evolution of Indians' exposures to health-related risks. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares empirically the distributions of individuals' risks of death in India on the basis of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977771
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Quantifying welfare effects in the presence of externalities : an ex-ante evaluation of sanitation interventions
Gautam, Sanghmitra - In: Journal of development economics 164 (2023), pp. 1-20
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Testing the tunnel effect: Comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max F.; … - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 24, pp. 1-30
In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s and negative effects for those over 45. In the UK, these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In West Germany, they cancel out to give...
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The Scandinavian Models for Development and Welfare
Wihlborg, Clas - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334949