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I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within older couples affects the impact of cash transfers on food demand. Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for food than husbands, and that household demand patterns for food are affected by...
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We investigate the trends of inequalities and mobility of income, expenditure and stock of durables between 1993 and 1998 in Hungary. In 1996-8 the stagnating level of inequalities is coupled with relatively low and decreasing mobility. The relationship between inequalities and mobility fastens...
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changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …
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-price elasticities. Rice has mean expenditure elasticity of 0.36 and mean own-price elasticity of -0.80. Using the estimated elasticities …, the study finds that when rice prices increase by 20 percent, average household welfare rises by 1.3 percent, yet it is …
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We investigate the food security situation of Slovak households in terms of both access to food and quality of the diet consumed by estimating food demand system and diet diversity demand models using household budget survey data over the period 2004 - 2010. In most samples demand for meat and...
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quantity and expenditure share of vegetables decreased in the interval. The expenditure elasticity shows that urban households …
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The study evaluates the effectiveness of Iranian government subsidies for households by comparing the welfare impact of …, compensated variations (CV) welfare index was used to evaluate the effectiveness of government support payments in reducing … different scenarios. In other words, consumers are in a worse situation in terms of welfare and their expenditure increases. The …
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In this paper we use micro-data from income and expenditure surveys for seven Latin American countries. We estimate Engel equations and present stylized facts regarding cultural spending. Culture activities are a key indicator of a society development and therefore cultural spending decisions...
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This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...
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This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865448