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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570629
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Snap and Food Consumption : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data
Lin, Xirong - 2022
I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within couples affects the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for SNAP-eligible food than husbands, and that household demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081878
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Food Demand and Cash Transfers : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data
Lin, Xirong - 2022
I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within older couples affects the impact of cash transfers on food demand. Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for food than husbands, and that household demand patterns for food are affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243925
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Per-capita income versus household-need adjusted income: a cross-country comparison
Koulovatianos, Christos; schröder, carsten; Minkovski, … - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 11-23
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by Household-Size Economies, due to the within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multi-member households. In most of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820082
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335538
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Redistributive Impacts of Government and Private Household Activities. Trends in Equivalized Household Net Incomes and Intra-household Earnings in Germany, 1985-2005
Krause, Peter - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 5 (2008) 1, pp. 129-153
The paper examines the development of incomes in Germany at different welfare levels, together with current trends in … information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854860
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Redistributive Impacts of Government and Private Household Activities. Trends in Equivalized Household Net Incomes and Intra-household Earnings in Germany, 1985-2005
Krause, Peter - In: Intervention. European Journal of Economics and … 05 (2008) 1, pp. 129-153
The paper examines the development of incomes in Germany at different welfare levels, together with current trends in … information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014363030
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011546013
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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