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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Income shocks"”.
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Income Shocks and the Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Indonesia
… in intra-household resources from negative shocks to male-sourced income. The setting and context takes place in coastal communities in Indonesia, where fishing is a main source ofincome generated primarily by men. This paper uses satellite-derived fishing conditions to measure how women's …
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Family Feuds: The effect of income shocks on domestic violence against women
Este documento estudia la relación entre ingresos familiares y violencia doméstica en un país en desarrollo. Para ello, me enfoco en los municipios de Colombia con altos niveles de producción de café. Utilizando choques negativos en los precios del café como una fuente de variación exógena que …
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Idiosyncratic Income Shocks, Access to Credit, and Households' Welfare in an Agrarian Economy: Micro -Econometric Studies on Rural Households in Bangladesh
The final analytical chapter tests the theories, which purport to explain the continued use of traditional rice varieties some thirty years after the introduction of High Yielding Varieties (HYV). Commonly used theories to explain this observed behavior of farm households are portfolio selection, …
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Consumption Smoothing and Labor Supply Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Tanzania
… smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic shocks to agricultural income. Using data on agricultural households from the Tanzanian LSMS-ISA National Panel Survey and global commodity price data as a source of plausibly exogenous variation, the sensitivity of wage labor to farm income shocks …
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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL RISK SHARING
… to mitigate impacts of idiosyncratic income shocks on consumption. Measuring the extent of international risk sharing (IRS) remains an open empirical question. This dissertation provides a new approach to measuring the extent of IRS for countries and conditions for the measure of …
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Machine Learning for Credit Default Risk
… during Covid. Higher loan repayment-to-income ratios render short-maturity loans more susceptible to Covid-driven income shocks not captured at loan origination. Furthermore, we document a structural break in the relation between default risk and payment holiday adoption rates for …
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A dynamic life cycle model for Germany with unemployment uncertainty
… The implemented uncertainty is not based on income shocks as it is done in traditional life cycle models but uses Markov probabilities where the probability for the next employment status of the agent depends on the current status. The utility function used is a CRRA function (constant …
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Behavioral Biases in General Equilibrium: Implications for Wealth Inequality and Human Capital Formation
… finitely lived, subject to idiosyncratic labor income shocks, and heterogeneous in both exponential and present-biased discount factors. My primary goal is characterizing the contribution of behavioral biases towards resolving several issues in the literature pertaining to human capital …
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Essays on Infrastructure Development and Public Finance
… Mali to estimate the causal effect of household income shocks on municipal-level tax revenues. It also exploits a national tax collection incentive policy to measure the impacts of rainfall variation on intergovernmental transfers.
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Essays on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand
… thesis consists of three chapters on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand. The first chapter analyzes the non-linear response of durable spending to income shocks. Empirically, the average marginal propensity to spend (MPC) on durable goods increases with the size of …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Development Economics
… In the first chapter, I study how aggregate income shocks affect the health and survival of children. I focus on the Peruvian coca industry to exploit a natural experiment. I assess the impacts of plausibly exogenous changes in the price of the coca crop on child mortality in coca-producing …
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Essays on U.S. agricultural policy : subsidies, crop insurance, and environmental auctions
… insurance, focusing on the potential to smooth income shocks, and the final chapter studies the targeting efficiency of the Conservation Reserve Program. Chapter one exploits exogenous variation in agricultural subsidies to measure the effects on farmland rental rates. The primary finding is …
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Essays on Worker Productivity and Labor Supply
… workers labor supply is affected by transitory income shocks. In neoclassical models, transitory income shocks should not affect labor supply. This prediction has often been rejected empirically in favor of theories featuring reference-dependent preferences. We show that apparent negative daily …
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Essays on Labour Supply, Retirement, and Consumption
… are estimated using the Korean Labour and Income Panel Study. I find that taking account of inter-vivos financial transfers can provide a better explanation of older people's life-cycle choices and reliance on government supports. The estimated model is used to evaluate the impact of two …
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Income Generation By Rural Women Through Indigeneous Poultry Keeping Project at Chessa Village in Uyui District, Tabora Region
A dissertation on income generation by rural women through indigenous poultry keeping project is a result of the Community Needs Assessments (CNA) conducted in Chessa village in Uyui district. Prior to project intervention, the CNA exercise was conducted which came up with the community needs and …
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Consumption and saving decisions in the face of choices about housing and pensions
… and transitions between steady states following shocks to income and mortgage markets, are studied. The findings suggest that credit shocks are more promising than income shocks as a potential explanation of large house price fluctuations and housing transactions level that covary positively with …
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Mortgage Default in Southern California: Examining Distressed Borrower's Decision Making and Market Contagion
… hypothesis, where negative equity and an income shock are necessary conditions for default--and "strategic default" where negative equity is a sufficient condition for default. This paper adds to the default literature by adding short sale as another possible outcome of mortgage …
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Essays on development and applied microeconomics
… for modelling household responses to negative income shocks. Chapter 3 studies the effect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ the household expenditure information to estimate the welfare loss induced by the price increase. Our findings suggest that we …
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Essays on development and applied microeconomics
… for modelling household responses to negative income shocks. Chapter 3 studies the effect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ the household expenditure information to estimate the welfare loss induced by the price increase. Our findings suggest that we …
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Monthly expenditure category fluctuations and trade-off in South Africa bottom of the pyramid households
… 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 the sample of households over a period of four months. In addition, study identified and quantified …
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