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In this paper, we estimate a collective model of household consumption and test the restrictions of collective … household: the random allocation of a cash transfer to women, and the relative size and wealth of the husband and wife's family … networks. We find that the structure we propose does better at predicting the effect of exogenous increases in household income …
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We measure the response of household consumption of different income groups to social spending during the 2002 …-2012 period using the aggregated Household Budget Survey Data. We find that households respond more strongly to changes in …
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A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households' supply of labour for agriculture, paid employment, and...
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This paper reports the results of a nationally representative survey that assessed individual and household willingness …-to-pay questions as referring to individual or household budgets. This paper demonstrates that the most important variable explaining … this is financial integration within the household and we argue that this is a potentially crucial source of differential …
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Standard economic theory implies that the labelling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents (e.g. child benefits, food stamps) should have no effect on spending patterns. The empirical literature to date does not contradict this proposition. We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment (WFP), a cash...
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