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We provide evidence that motorists respond to short-run fluctuations in fuel prices at the gas pump and not on the road. Employing variants of censored panel regression to control for unobserved heterogeneity and censoring of the dependent variable, we find that the fuel price has a large and...
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This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … differ from pre- and mid-crisis coping strategies. War-affected households are forced to adopt very risky coping strategies … that re-enforce their vulnerability. Households choose between market and non-market forms of exchange and even exit …
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. …
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We use household survey data from Hungary to analyse the determinants of foreign currency (FX) borrowing. We do not find evidence that Hungarian FX borrowers are better educated, wealthier or more risk-loving than their peers. In fact, FX borrowing is a common phenomenon driven mostly by...
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Republic. Reforms of excise duties change the prices of goods, a change to which households respond by adjusting their … individual households to create a microeconomic simulation model that enables me to simulate the impact of changes in excise … duties on households' demands. I show the distributional impact of current excise duties and then I simulate the impact of …
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With data from the Household Budget Survey of 2008-2009, the study investigates the demographic and socioeconomic determinants of saving rate of Brazilian families in the recent past. The main results are consistent with the predictions of the theory of life / permanent income cycle, properly...
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We use a panel of UK households to analyse the impact that various individual, household and dwelling characteristics …
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The revealed residential choice of city versus suburbs within large metropolitan areas is examined with particular focus on families with children, especially those with college-educated parents. Probit and bivariate probit estimates are presented for 15 large metropolitan areas in the United...
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studies on the broader welfare effects of the technology on rural households are still limited. Using household survey data … the promotion of mobile money among rural households in Uganda and other developing countries as a promising instrument. …
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The modes of remittances of households in Bangladesh have been categorised as 'No Remit- tances', 'Internal Remittances … and the households' basic characteristics. The study reveals that household level variables like rural-urban locations …, age and sex of the households heads, religion, ratio of male, adult and young members etc. are potentially significant in …
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