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Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002

We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families … unusually cold weather (a 10 degree F drop below normal). At same time, poor families reduce food expenditures by roughly the … their children outside the South spend and eat less food during cold weather temperature shocks. We surmise that existing …

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Understanding Transitory Rainfall Shocks, Economic Growth and Civil Conflict

Miguel, Edward - 2010

Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) use rainfall variation as an instrument to show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that...

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Scarred Consumption

Malmendier, Ulrike - 2018

-end products. As predicted by the experience-based learning model, the effects of a given macro shock are stronger for younger than …

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Demand Shocks and Supply Chain Resilience : An Agent Based Modelling Approach and Application to the Potato Supply Chain

Lu, Liang; Nguyen, Ruby; Rahman, Md Mamunur; Winfree, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

demand shock will have different impacts on various stakeholders of the supply chain. Our contribution to the literature is …

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Risk Pooling and Precautionary Saving in Village Economies

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shrinivas, Aditya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We propose a new method to test for efficient risk pooling that allows for intertemporal smoothing, non-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences. The method is composed of three steps. The first one allows for precautionary savings by the aggregate risk pooling group....

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Saving Regret

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2018

We define saving regret as the wish in hindsight to have saved more earlier in life. We measured saving regret and possible determinants in a survey of a probability sample of those aged 60-79. We investigate two main causes of saving regret: procrastination along with other psychological...

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How Do Households Respond to Income Shocks?

Krueger, Dirk; Malkov, Egor; Perri, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

are more substantial (and increasing with the horizon of the income shock) and wealth responses are much smaller. We show …

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Permanent Income Shocks, Target Wealth, and the Wealth Gap

Jappelli, Tullio - 2020

We test the key implication of the buffer stock model, namely that any revision in permanent income leads to a proportionate revision in target wealth. We use panel data on the amount of wealth held for precautionary purposes available in the 2002-2016 SHIW. Using an instrumental variable...

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Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks

Ganong, Peter - 2020

(20) percent more than white households when faced with a similarly-sized income shock. Nearly all of this differential …

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How Much Consumption Insurance in Bewley Models with Endogenous Family Labor Supply?

Wu, Chunzan - 2018

We show that a calibrated life-cycle two-earner household model with endogenous labor supply can rationalize the extent of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and Saporta-Eksten (2016) in U.S. data. With additively...

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