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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Consumption insurance"”.
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Remittances, Consumption Insurance and Family Labour Supply
… examine if remittances are a source of insurance for recipient households, and to explore how remittance income alters family time allocation between market and home production activities. The first substantive chapter presents stylized facts on the properties and distribution of …
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Essays on Sovereign Default
… inflation via foreign currency debt with consumption insurance via local currency debt. The model indicates that inflationary default risk is the primary factor driving governments to tilt their external borrowing towards foreign currency when expected inflation rises. I show that …
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Food security in India
… chapter asks whether households fully smooth consumption in the face of fluctuations in income. In the first chapter (co-authored with Kathy Baylis and Ben Crost), we examine the effect of the PDS program on labor supply and wages. Our empirical analysis exploits changes in the generosity of …
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Essays on the Economics of Debt, Default and Housing Markets
… significantly attenuate (by roughtly half) the consumption drop during a crisis. Importantly, I show that the ability of households to gain insurance through delinquency is significantly impacted by the degree of recourse available to banks upon foreclosure. The model features realistic …
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Essays on Labour Supply, Retirement, and Consumption
… behaviour of labour supply, retirement, and consumption in different contexts. The first chapter studies the importance of intrafamily supports in elderly people's work and retirement choice. I build a dynamic programming model with extended families consisted of elderly parents and their …