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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms: Impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - 2012

household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed …

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Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda

Bensch, Gunther; Kluve, Jochen; Peters, Jörg - 2011

electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without …

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Financial incentives, the timing of births, birth complications, and newborns' health: Evidence from the abolition of Austria's baby bonus

Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2011

We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997. The abolition of the benefit was publicly announced about ten months in advance, creating the opportunity for prospective parents to (re-)schedule conceptions accordingly. We find...

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Heterogeneous households in a sticky-price model

Lee, Jae Won - 2009

-specific labor markets. Households differ in labor incomes and asset markets are incomplete. I show that household heterogeneity …. To quantify the importance of household heterogeneity in amplifying stickiness, I estimate and compare representative and … heterogeneous household models. The quantitative exercise shows the heterogenous household model performs better than its …

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Wie stark sind unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsgruppen von der Inflation betroffen?

Brachinger, Hans Wolfgang - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 88 (2008) 6, pp. 358-363

In Deutschland sind derzeit wieder so hohe Inﬂationsraten zu verzeichnen wie zuletzt im Wiedervereinigungsboom. Was sind die Ursachen dafür? Wie sind unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsgruppen davon betroffen? Wie sieht es in den anderen Ländern der Europäischen Währungsunion aus? Besteht die...

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Banks, markets, and efficiency

Fecht, Falko; Martin, Antoine - 2005

households' deposits, a high level of household financial market participation might be beneficial. …

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Inflation inequality in the United States

Hobijn, Bart; Lagakos, David - 2003

, we do not find much household-specific persistence in inflation disparities. …

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Pet overpopulation: An economic analysis

Coate, Stephen; Knight, Brian - 2009

This paper considers the problem of pet overpopulation. It develops a tractable dynamic model whose positive predictions square well with key features of the current U.S. market for pets. The model is used to understand, from a welfare economic perspective, the sense in which there is...

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Housing and personal wealth in a global context

Muellbauer, John - 2007

housing markets are therefore key to understanding personal portfolios, saving, the household distribution of wealth, and the …

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Does women's status matter for food security? Evidence from Bangladesh

Razzaque, Mohammad A.; Toufique, Mohammad Mokammel Karim - 2007

of household income and a composite index of women empowerment, the paper finds evidence of women’s status influencing … be instrumental in mitigating the extent of gender-based within-household discrimination. The findings reveal that …

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