Search Results - subject:"HOUSEHOLD INCOME"

Determinants of household education expenditure in Uganda : do the poor spend more on education than the rich?

Nabiddo, Winnie; Yawe, Bruno L.; Wasswa, Francis - In: Tanzania economic review : TER 13 (2023) 1, pp. 183-199

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Income windfalls and overweight : evidence from lottery wins

Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 64 (2023) 5, pp. 2005-2026

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Parental Income Volatility and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Sweden

Ye, Zhen; Oskarsson, Sven; Ahlskog, Rafael - 2023

This paper evaluates the effects of parental income volatility on children’s entrepreneurial decisions in Sweden. We first show that individuals who experience higher uninsurable parental income volatility during adolescence are more likely to become entrepreneurs. A one-standard deviation...

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Intra-Household Experiments

Munro, Alistair - 2023

In recent years experimental economists have explored intra-household decision-making, particularly in the context of developing economies. Both 'lab-in-the-field' and 'sandbox' style experiments have been conducted, changing our understanding of how households make decisions. This survey...

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Flow of Household Income

Besustringue, Lyra; Garcia-Vigonte, Florinda; Abante, … - 2023

the household sector. The study of household income, as the fundamental component of the economic sector, recognizes its … education, among others, were identified. Social and psychological factors can also influence household income. The primary … sources of household income are salaries as compensation for an employee-employer relationship, income from self …

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Systematic Income Risk and Households’ Portfolios

Braggion, Fabio; Floccari, Giuseppe; Soerlie Kvaerner, Jens - 2023

We develop a methodology to estimate households’ exposure to systematic income risk and its causal effect on portfolio decisions. The identification strategy relies on household fixed effects and a novel instrument based on major corporate events. We apply it to a Dutch administrative panel...

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Parental Education and Invention : The Finnish Enigma

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - 2023

Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...

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Income loss among the self-employed : implications for individual wellbeing and pandemic policy measures

Schneck, Stefan - In: Review of Economics of the Household 21 (2023) 1, pp. 37-57

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Migration of dual-earner couples : a subjective wellbeing approach

Tam, Diana; Grimes, Arthur L. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 21 (2023) 1, pp. 269-289

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Cooperative property rights and development : evidence from land reform in El Salvador : a comment

Kjelsrud, Anders; Kotsadam, Andreas; Rogeberg, Ole - 2023 - March 2023 (updated Version, March 10)

Montero (2022) explores a discontinuity in a land reform in El Salvador and reports two main findings. First, relative to outside-owned haciendas operated by contract workers, the productivity of worker-owned cooperatives is higher for staple crops and lower for cash-crop. Second, cooperative...

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