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Retailers and Consumers : the pass-through of import price changes
Berner, Eike; Birg, Laura; Boddin, Dominik - 2016 - Überarbeitete Version: Juni 2016
-through rates for low-income households are 58%, significantly larger than those for high-income households. We then present one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488657
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Urbanization, inequality, and poverty in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yuan - 2016
Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522047
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Infrastructure disruptions : how instability breeds household vulnerability : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Obolensky, Marguerite; Erman, Alvina; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2019
that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the grid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052017
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Household labor supply and social protection : evidence from Pakistan's BISP Cash Transfer Program
Ambler, Kate; De Brauw, Alan - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134079
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Households' ICT access and educational vulnerability of children in Ghana
Karakara, Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel; Osabuohien, Evans - 2019
household children are less likely to be disadvantaged in learning outcomes. Households' access to ICTs enhances child learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137812
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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy
Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019
This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022290
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Cultural and financial dollarization of households in Uruguay
Licandro Ferrando, Gerardo; Mello Costa, Miguel - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997278
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Has higher household indebtedness weakened monetary policy transmission?
Gelos, Gaston; Grinberg, Federico; Mancini Griffoli, Tommaso - 2019
. Households with higher debt levels and lower shares of liquid assets are the most responsive to monetary policy, and the share of … these households in the population grew. Other factors, such as economic uncertainty, appear to have played a bigger role in … the decline of households' responsiveness to monetary policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001512
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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019
This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121195
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Household debt and aging in Japan
Horioka, Charles; Niimi, Yoko - 2019
In this paper, we analyze the borrowing behavior of Japanese households in comparison to the other Group of Seven (G7 …) countries and also broken down by the age group of the household head. We find that pre-retirement households (households with a … satisfactory. However, we also find that households with a head in the 30-39 age group have shown a sharp increase in debt holdings …
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