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The effect of child benefits on financial difficulties and spending habits: evidence from Poland's Family 500+ program
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021
In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500 … alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508568
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Analysis of Impact of Remittance on Poverty in Nigeria
Chukwuone, Nnaemeka Andegbe - 2018
This study analyzes the impact of remittances on poverty in Nigeria. The Nigerian National Living Standard Survey 2004 …) method to estimate the impact of remittances on poverty. The use of these methods was based on two reasons. The first is to … reduce the incidence, depth and severity of poverty. The statistical tests show a significant Average Treatment Effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938182
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Individual Charitable Donation and Household Spending
Ang, James S. - 2013
The weight of individual charitable contribution in the total contribution has decreased significantly since 1979. The fraction of household income spent on cash contribution has also declined during the same period. We examine the factors behind these trends. We find that stock market return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075904
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Consumption Response to Temporary Price Shock : Evidence from Singapore's Annual Sale Event
Agarwal, Sumit - 2017
Exploiting a novel panel dataset of consumer financial transactions in Singapore, we examine the consumption response to an anticipated, transitory price shock generated by the nation-wide annual sale event. Consistent with theory, we find inter-temporal substitution where consumers spend less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947982
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Influence of quality of life on the state and development of human capital in Latviac
Tsaurkubule, Zhanna - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 103-112
Currently, the essence and forms of interrelation between human capital and quality of life are still insufficiently studied. Therefore, there is a need for defining general components of these categories and areas, where human capital interacts with quality of life. Today, Latvia has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405212
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Evolution of living standards in Romanian rural area during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lupu, Geanina-Valentina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 321-327). 2020
those in rural areas. All the factors presented increase the risk of poverty for the categories at the limit of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518779
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Socio-economic determinants of child marriage : evidence from the Iranian provinces
Asna-ashary, Mozhgan; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, … - 2020 - This version: 22.01.2020
We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty Iranian provinces from 2007 to 2015. Our panel fixed effects and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations show that the level of income per capita (with negative effect),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419046
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Migration and forsaken schooling in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/4, pp. 1-27
Large international earnings differentials negatively impact human capital investments in migrant-origin countries. We find that three Central Asian migrant-sending countries-the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan-are facing a for-saken schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303135
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Job status, international migration and educational choice
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311042
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Schooling forsaken : education and migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265254