While recent studies have examined how economic shocks arising from trade competition affect voting results at the aggregate level, we know little about the individual-level mechanisms that bring such effects about. In this contribution, we use long-term individual-level panel data to study the...

This paper investigates the dynamics of poverty in Nigeria across two periods - post-planting and post-harvest seasons. Two poverty levels were used in analyzing the household survey data. The estimated results show that about 82.11 % of the population was categorized as living under US$2/day in...

This study sheds light on the effect that international remittances have on expenditure patterns of urban households in Ethiopia. It makes use of primary household survey data collected in 2013 from four major urban areas - Addis Ababa, Gonder, Hawassa, and Mekelle. It uses the Working-Lesser...

This paper provides a model for the well-known empirical phenomenon that houses of different quality experience different price developments. The typical pattern is that luxury houses appreciate more in boom periods and depreciate more during busts. The standard model of housing demand treats...

In the light of new theoretical and empirical work on the Permanent Income Hypothesis we tackle earlier findings for German data, which reject its validity given a large fraction of liquidity constrained consumers. Starting from a standard short run approach we do not find evidence for excess...

There has been much informal speculation on how changes in economic circumstances contribute to partnership dissolution; however there has been little empirical work testing these speculations. This paper aims to shed light on how micro level factors such as receiving a financial windfall and...