Search Results - subject:"HOUSEHOLD INCOME"

How Does the Beauty of Wives Affect Post-Marriage Family Outcomes? Helen's Face in Chinese Households

Zhang, Junsen; Fei, Shulan; Wen, Yanbing - 2023

Research on the economics of beauty has persistently emphasized beauty premiums in the labor market but ignored its influence within existing marriages. We examine the physical appearance of the wives and its influence on several post-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is...

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Effects of Family Income on Child Academic Achievement Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Wage

Kaestner, Robert; Faundez, Luis - 2023

We examine the effect of family earnings on child math and reading test scores using the minimum wage as an instrument for family earnings. We show that a higher minimum wage raises earnings significantly and that the effect of the minimum wage on family earnings varies by maternal skill....

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Household Income and Consumption Consequences of Death and Illness : Evidence from Ethiopia

Mengistie, Netsanet Getahun - 2023

This paper discusses the effects of death and illness on household income and non-health consumption for all and … country does not fully insure household income and consumption against death and illness. The results show that, after …

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Tax-Benefit Policy and Poverty Among Families : Poland in 2005–2019

Morawski, Leszek - 2023

We analyze changes in poverty from 2005 to 2019. We determine the contribution of tax and benefit changes to poverty change and identify the proportion of poverty change that would have occurred had these policies not changed. We consider six categories of families. We show that even after...

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The Effect of Poverty Stereotype Threat on Inhibitory Control in Individuals with Different Household Incomes

Wang, Shanshan; Yang, Dong - 2023

a negative effect on those with a lower-household income during poverty-related stimuli processing, and positive effect … on those with a higher-household income during affluence-related stimuli processing. Based on the findings, the effect of …This paper studied the impact of poverty stereotype threat on the inhibitory control ability of different household …

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Crop diversification increased household welfare in Afghanistan (2011-2017)

Ahmadzai, Hayatullah; Morrissey, Oliver - 2023

Crop diversification is a farm level strategy to augment income, improve food security, and mitigate risks attributable to climate and market shocks. We use three-waves (2011/12 to 2016/17) of nationally representative repeated cross section surveys to study the impact of crop diversification on...

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Income inequality and household debt : examining the impact of relative income on formal and informal debt in South Africa

Foster, Shakeba - 2023

How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper assesses this question using the two most recent waves of the South African Living Conditions Survey. A range of linear models as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed,...

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Bride price and household income : evidence from rural China

Li, Jing; Li, Jun - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 28 (2023) 4, pp. 1327-1346

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The global housing affordability crisis : policy options and strategies

Saiz, Albert - 2023

Housing prices are rising faster than incomes in many areas of the world, reducing wellbeing and engendering social discontent. Passivity by municipal and national governments is no longer an option. In this essay, I will describe the tradeoffs between different housing policy objectives of...

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Consumption partial insurance in the presence of tail income risk

Ghosh, Anisha; Theloudis, Alexandros - 2023

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