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Can economic crises be good for your diet?

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet; Hoffman, … - 2011

With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...

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Economic Transition in the Baltics: Independence, market reforms and child well-being in Lithuania

Lazutka, Romas; Sniukstiene, Zita - 1995

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Sharing High Growth across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 7 (2015) 2, pp. 1-39

We analyze intergenerational redistribution in emerging economies with the aid of an overlapping generations model with endogenous labor supply. Growth is initially high but declines over time. A version of the model calibrated to China is used to analyze the welfare effects of alternative...

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(Un)happiness in Transition

Guriev, Sergei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 23 (2009) 2, pp. 143-68

Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and … in macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition (which …

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The Transition in Georgia: From collapse to optimism

Gogishvili, Teimuraz; Gogodze, Joseph; Tsakadze, Amiran - 1996

This working paper documents the economic and social crises in Georgia during the 1990s, their structural causes and the survival strategies adopted by the Georgian population, the vast majority of whom became impoverished, with large families particularly vulnerable. It also examines the hopes...

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Has recent economic growth in Poland been pro-poor?

Brzeziński, Michał - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2011

This paper applies two recently introduced measurement frameworks to analyze the effects of economic growth and inequality changes on the performance of the poor’s living standard in Poland during the recent decade of 1998–2008. We use both an approach based on a general class of...

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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

With fortuitously timed data – collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria – we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922962

Can economic crises be good for your diet?

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet; Hoffman, … - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025181

(Un)Happiness in Transition

Guriev, Sergei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272044

Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2011

With fortuitously timed data collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria, we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary impact...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127325