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Intrahousehold health care financing strategy and the gender gap: Empirical evidence from India

Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008

health care in the country. No studies, however, have directly examined this discrimination in relation to household behavior … that while the gap in the probability of boys' and girls' hospitalization and usage of household income and savings is …

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Revealed informal activity

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - 2011

What does it mean to be in the informal sector? Many characterizations have been used in the literature, for example, firms that are unregistered or employ a small workforce or firms/economic enterprises that do not have access to formal capital markets. But many people participate in both...

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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 … electricity access. We account for self-selection and regional differences by using households from the electrified villages to …

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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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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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