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We analyse the effect of civil war on household welfare. Using Burundian panel data for the 1998-2007 period in which … consumption growth by 13%. We also find that violence afflicted on household members decreases growth whereas membership of rebel … different household and province fixed effects specifications. …
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We analyse the effect of violence and rebellion on the evolution of household welfare. We collected new panel data for … definitions of the household as unit of analysis and test for resource pooling between parental and split-off households. Focusing … period. Results are robust to alternative variables of civil war shocks and model specifications, including household fixed …
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We analyse the effect of civil war on household welfare. Using Burundian panel data for the 1998-2007 period in which … consumption growth by 13%. We also find that violence afflicted on household members decreases growth whereas membership of rebel … different household and province fixed effects specifications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005611904
We analyse the effect of civil war on household welfare. Using Burundian panel data for the 1998-2007 period in which … consumption growth by 13%. We also find that violence afflicted on household members decreases growth whereas membership of rebel … different household and province fixed effects specifications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252496
Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …
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This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias ….Widowhood poverty is no greater than that overall,but the picture changes dramatically if we allow economies of household size …
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This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits … three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the … distribution of household welfare over both short-run and long-run periods. The empirical approach uses RIF measures based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014328817
of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …
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Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by seasonality, economic instability, and illiquidity across months. To capture within-year variability, we extend traditional poverty measures to include a temporal dimension....
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The paper argues that household budgets are the best starting point for investigating a number of big questions related … associated problems of small, incomplete, and unrepresentative samples. We introduce the Historical Household Budgets (HHB …
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