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effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6 percent, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage … on food consumption (10 percent or 43 to 108 fewer calories per person per day) and reduced expenditures on basic …
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catastrophic payments are mutually exclusive outcomes. They achieve this by expressing out-of-pocket payments as a ratio of'discretionary'consumption …, defined as the amount by which total consumption (gross of out-of-pocket payments) exceeds the poverty line. This allows the …: those that absorb more than a pre-specified fraction of discretionary consumption; and those that leave a household …
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-monotonic relationship between households'accumulated consumption and unit prices, thus generating exogenous price variation, which is … in gas consumption. They also indicate that consumers respond more to recent past bills than to expected prices, which …
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This paper introduces a new explanation for political budget cycles: politicians have stronger incentives to increase spending around elections in the presence of younger political parties. Previous research has shown that political budget cycles are larger when voters are uninformed about...
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The objective of the paper is to explain the last boom and bust in consumption in Ireland by the failure of consumers … state of the economy. The analysis finds that a large and prolonged disconnect between consumption and long-run productivity … occurred in the years leading to the economic crisis, which led to -- over-consumption -- for several quarters. A strong …
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This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania … to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …
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survey that collects non-consumption data from all surveyed households and consumption data from only a small subsample …. Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the purpose of estimating poverty is costly and many low-income countries … cannot afford to carry out such surveys on a regular basis. One option is to collect only non-consumption data and use …
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The authors explore the argument that trade between the Mercosur countries should be stimulated by preferential policies because of their geographic proximity. That is, that the Mercosur countries are candidates for natural integration. They find that, on average, transportation margins on trade...
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scenarios, for Mozambique. An applied general equilibrium model, which accounts for high marketing margins and home consumption …
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How useful and relevant are the results of standard optimal commodity tax models when one or more commodities are rationed? This paper investigates the implications of optimal commodity taxation under rationing. In a single person economy, optimal policy dictates that the rationed commodity...
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