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The impact of weather insurance on consumption, investment, and welfare
De Nicola, Francesca - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 637-661
I develop and estimate a dynamic stochastic optimization model to assess the impact of weather insurance on the consumption, investment, and welfare of farmers in developing countries. Weather insurance has the potential to provide large welfare gains, equivalent to a permanent increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757754
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The Impact of Weather Insurance on Consumption, Investment, and Welfare
de Nicola, Francesca - 2015
I develop and estimate a dynamic stochastic optimization model to assess the impact of weather insurance on the consumption, investment, and welfare of farmers in developing countries. Weather insurance has the potential to provide large welfare gains, equivalent to a permanent increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014164199
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Access to banking, savings and consumption smoothing in rural India
Somville, Vincent; Vandewalle, Lore - 2019
India. The treated respondents save actively into the account and their individual savings increase. There is, however, no … signi cant impact on mean household savings nor on average expenditures, income, loans or transfers. Based on weekly data …
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Spillovers of community-based health interventions on consumption smoothing
Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2016
Community-based interventions, particularly group-based ones, are considered to be a cost-effective way of delivering interventions in low-income settings. However, design features of these programs could also influence dimensions of household and community behaviour beyond those targeted by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562534
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Spillovers of community-based health interventions on consumption smoothing
Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2016
Community-based interventions, particularly group-based ones, are considered to be a cost-effective way of delivering interventions in low-income settings. However, design features of these programs could also influence dimensions of household and community behaviour beyond those targeted by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571219
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The impact of pre-marital sex ratios on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited
Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497711
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The response of consumption in Russian households to economic shocks
Stillman, Steven - 2001
changes in household savings are negatively related to exogenous income shocks, with this relationship strongest for low … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405709
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The Impact of Sex Ratios Before Marriage on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975–2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980861
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The Impact of Pre-Marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987329
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Consumption growth in a booming economy : Taiwan 1976-1996
McKenzie, David J. - 2001
in an environment where a large majority of households have high savings rates. Household survey data from 1976-96 are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609450