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The impact of food price shocks on weight loss : evidence from the adult population of Tanzania
García-Germán, Sol; Romeo, Alessandro; Magrini, Emiliano - 2016
Undernourishment is still widespread in Tanzania, while obesity is becoming an issue of magnitude similar to undernutrition in the country. In this paper we examined the impact of an increase in maize prices on the nutritional status of Tanzania's adult population. We found that undernutrition...
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Per capita income versus household-need adjusted income: A cross-country comparison
Koulovatianos, Christos; Minkovski, Polina; Schroeder, … - 2010
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...
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Inequality and mobility analysis by the Hungarian Rotation Panel, 1993-1998
Kapitány, Zsuzsa; Molnár, György - 2002
We investigate the trends of inequalities and mobility of income, expenditure and stock of durables between 1993 and 1998 in Hungary. In 1996-8 the stagnating level of inequalities is coupled with relatively low and decreasing mobility. The relationship between inequalities and mobility fastens...
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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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Globalization and the role of public transfers in redistributing income in Latin America and the Caribbean
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Lindert, Kathy; Shapiro, Joseph - 2009
and inequality, and by their distributional characteristic. Our findings suggest that public transfers can be effective … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gaston - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649290
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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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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Calorie elasticities with income dynamics : evidence from the literature
Zhou, De; Yu, Xiaohua - 2014
This paper proposes a finite mixture model (FMM) to model the behavioral transition of calorie consumption with an assumption that nutrition consumption is a mixture of two different behavioral stages: a poor stage and an affluent stage. Based on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90...
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