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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks
Stillman, Steven - 2001
This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During the time period studied in this paper (1994 – 1998), Russia experienced two major economic crises. Both featured extreme movements in the real ruble-dollar exchange rate. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262612
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Regional Price Differences in Urban China 1986-2001: Estimation and Implication
Gong, Cathy Honge; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822212
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261851
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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe and model the determinants of interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period, with a particularly severe decline occurring in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262677
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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe and model the determinants of interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period, with a particularly severe decline occurring in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763881
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822690
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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks
Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During the time period studied in this paper (1994 – 1998), Russia experienced two major economic crises. Both featured extreme movements in the real ruble-dollar exchange rate. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566824
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Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
countries in the last two decades. Using the introduction of a new public policy in China, we estimate the effects of pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141161
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The Persistent Effect of Famine on Present-Day China: Evidence from the Billionaires
Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2021
More than half a century has passed since the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961), and China has transformed from a poor … an adverse effect on wealth, and it is even present among the wealthiest cohort of individuals in present-day China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597437
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Parental job loss and children's health: Ten years after the massive layoff of the SOEs' workers in China
Liu, Hong; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278584