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effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …
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systemically smaller for Black compared to White families. One hypothesis is that due to the existing structural racism that … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … poverty. Aims: Using a nationally representative sample of American families with children, this study investigated racial …
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characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …
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-term income, medium-term further education, long-term retirement insurance. The focus is on the particularly affected groups of …
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There is a large literature on intergenerational social and educational mobility in developed countries, but the evidence in developing countries is still scant In the current literature, household background has been predicted as a significant determinant of individuals' current and future...
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Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...
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there are differences in tourism consumption behavior among Italian families which reflect disparities in their standard of … that tourism consumption is an income sensitive good. The analysis reveals that tourism is generally a luxury good … reflecting the disparities in the standard of living among Italian families. We have found that participation in the tourism …
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This report summarizes major findings from the HORTINLEA survey conducted in 2014 under the framework of HORTINLEA project. The HORTINLEA project is an inter-disciplinary research project addressing food security in East Africa, particularly in Kenya. The project targets to improve the...
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This paper presents a supervised classification model, where the indicators of correlation between dependent and independent variables within each class are utilized for a transformation of the large-scale input data to a lower dimension without loss of recognition relevant information. In the...
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individuals present in the home during the day, and respondents' income. These results highlight the possibility of either … adversely impacting consumers. In contrast, household size and income emerge as predictors of the number of appliance use events …
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