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Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Reassessment of the Paradox

Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel - 2005

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues misleading and led to the so-called ?Burkinab? Growth-Poverty-Paradox?, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty...

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Couple's labor supply, taxes, and the division of housework in a gender-neutral lab

Schröder, Melanie; Burow, Norma - 2016

We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework under individual and joint income taxation systems. In order to eliminate problems of endogenous intra-couple time use decisions, we exogenously varied not only the taxation...

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Savings goal calendars as soft commitment devices: Evidence from small business owners in Uganda

Grohmann, Antonia; Lakemann, Tabea; Seitz, Helke - 2020

This study examines the effect of a soft commitment device in the form of a savings goal calendar on savings for small … calendar designed to set savings goals and to make a plan to reach this goal. The control group is given a plain calendar. We … find no average effect on savings, but show that present-biased individuals save more when given the calendar. Further …

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The effect of personalized feedback on small enterprises' finances in Uganda

Grohmann, Antonia; Menkhoff, Lukas; Seitz, Helke - 2019

. The index of primary outcomes increases by 0.258 SD units and overall savings improve by 0.257 SD units. Analyzing the …

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Subgroup analysis of investment constraints: Evidence from Ugandan microenterprises

Seitz, Helke - 2020

like credit, savings, and managerial constraints. Using panel data, this study identifies subgroups that would benefit by … interventions aiming to reduce savings or managerial constraints could be effective when targeting the correct subgroups. …

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Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand

Hübler, Olaf; Koch, Melanie; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmidt, … - 2020

This study tests the prediction that perceived corruption reduces ethical behavior. Integrating a standard "cheating" experiment into a broad household survey in rural Thailand, we find clear support for this prediction: respondents who perceive corruption in state affairs are more likely to...

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Mortality and Survivors' Consumption

Grimm, Michael - 2006

In developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member does not only induce direct costs such as medical and...

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Does the behaviour of myopic addicts support the rational addiction model? A simulation

Frank, Björn - 2002

Becker and Murphy (1988) constructed, in a well-known paper, a model of rational addiction in which people solve a dynamic optimization problem, choose an optimal timepath of drug consumption and thereby maximize lifetime utility. The model leads to the hypothesis that future consumption is a...

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Precautionary and entrepreneurial saving: new evidence from German households

Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2009

The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...

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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010

Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...

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