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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Household Expenditure"”.
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Crowding-out Of Household Expenditure By Tobacco In Ghana
This paper examines whether other expenditure in Ghanaian households is crowded out by expenditure on tobacco over the period under study (2005/2006 and 2012/2013) and whether the magnitude of crowding-out over the period has been changed by the introduction of the tobacco control law in July, …
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The impact of livestock and gender on household expenditure patterns in the Copperbelt province of Zambia
… there remains a dearth of studies that have used household data to test the impact of this asset. Using a panel data set from the Copperbelt Rural Livelihood Enhancement Support Project (CRLESP), this study examines the impact of livestock on household expenditures. Specifically, the study …
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Economic and health implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa: a household expenditure analysis
… include the crowding-out effect of tobacco expenditure on household expenses, and the impact of parental tobacco and alcohol consumption on child health outcomes. The thesis emphasises the interconnectedness of tobacco and alcohol use, and their place in South Africa's development and policy …
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Impacts of socioeconomic and demographic factors on household expenditure for disaggregate fish and shellfish in the United States
… information, notably own price, income, and household size elasticity measures, about consumer behavior relating to specific fish and shellfish products. The methodology used in this study is as follows: (1) organize and analyze at-home seafood consumption data for specific finfish and …
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The Extent and Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria: Evidence from Household Expenditure Survey Datasets and an Assessment of the Impact of Oil Industry
… We analyse the evolution of welfare of households according to the demographics of the household heads in Chapter 3. In Chapters 4, 5 and 6, we asked the following questions and try to address the questions using original survey data on Nigeria and aggregate-level data on oil-related …
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Determinants of remittance channels amongst immigrants in South Africa
… study showed that sex, age, rental payments, and household expenditure were significant determinants or influencers of remittance behaviour. Furthermore, it showed that more immigrants were male, as compared to female immigrants in this study. This study concluded that since sex, age, rental …
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Private schooling and state support in Malta
… past seven years and examines them in terms of household expenditure. It also evaluates the role of the State support to parents and private schools. The affordability benchmark that is applied in this study is 25% of a household income. Analysis is developed in terms of field work interviews …
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Economic effects of fuel subsidy in oil producing countries : the case of Nigeria
… Incidence Analysis (BIA) show that the richest household quintile enjoys twice as much the benefit of fuel subsidies as the poorest household quintile on the aggregate. Both the gasoline and kerosene subsidies are found to be more regressive than the per capita expenditure suggesting the …
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Poverty reduction with high inequality and growth : evidence from post-independence Namibia.
… is based on the only two available Namibian household expenditure surveys from 1993/94 and 2003/04. To this point they have not been subjected to a detailed comparative analysis.
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The economics of alcohol : a collection of essays
… alcohol across the drinking distribution, using household expenditure data to test whether heavy drinkers respond the same as light drinkers to price increases. Both conditional and unconditional quantile regression are used to compare results generated by the two different methods. The chapter …
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A New Method of Ceramic Economic Indexing in Historical Archaeology with a Case Study from Springfield, Missouri
… archaeological record to quantify ceramic expenditure patterns. However, Miller's method is suited primarily to antebellum assemblages of ceramic artifacts. In this study, I developed a new ceramic economic indexing method, designed expressly for assemblages postdating the 1870s. This was …
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Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
… of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure in Argentina in order to be able to capture the distribution of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among health coverage. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the Household Expenditure Survey for 2012/2013. Using the …
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The relationship between multidimensional psychological well-being and poverty
… well-being lead to increases in monthly household expenditure, especially health care. Furthermore, these findings indicate that when women receive a cash transfer, a significant proportion of that transfer is devoted to health care. All the estimates presented in the paper indicate that …
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Economics in action: three essays
… price subsidies -- with direct cash transfers to household. Finally, in the third chapter, I measure the distributional effects of several countrywide welfare programs in interaction with economic growth and households' characteristics. In the followings, I have provided summaries of each chapter. …
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Associations between socioeconomic status and prevalence, incidence and complications of type 2 diabetes in China
… between SES (measured by educational level and household expenditure in CHARLS, and educational level and household income in CKB) and prevalent type 2 diabetes in mainland China. Then, I used prospective data from CKB (from 2004-2008 to 2013) to describe the association between SES and incident …
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Sugar-sweetened beverages in Nigeria: Affordability and expenditure and price elasticities
… For estimating the own-price, cross-price and expenditure elasticities, I used the Nigeria Household Survey, Panel (2013 and 2016) data, using the Almost Ideal Demand System. I applied Deaton's unit value model and used unit values as prices and used the Heckman procedure to correct for …
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Revealed Preference Analysis Under Nontransitive Preferences
… validation of RPM is based on the UK Family Expenditure Survey, which includes household expenditure, income, and socio-demographic characteristics. The analysis identifies different consumer profiles that support nontransitive behaviors and highlights the limitations of traditional rational …
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Essays on development and applied microeconomics
… which are self-contained but all related to household food consumption in Bangladesh. Chapter 2 examines the Engel curve for major expenditure categories and presents estimates of equivalence scales for Bangladesh. We compare Engel curves estimated by semi-parametric techniques to those …
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Essays on development and applied microeconomics
… which are self-contained but all related to household food consumption in Bangladesh. Chapter 2 examines the Engel curve for major expenditure categories and presents estimates of equivalence scales for Bangladesh. We compare Engel curves estimated by semi-parametric techniques to those …
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Monthly expenditure category fluctuations and trade-off in South Africa bottom of the pyramid households
… study investigated changes in the allocation of household expenditure between various product or service categories in a sample of South African low-income or 'bottom of the pyramid' (BoP) households. First, the mixed methods research quantified the monthly income and expenditure fluctuations in …
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