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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Private transfers"”.
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Three essays in development economics: Private transfers, farmers' retirement, and learning failures
… extension program in Malawi. Farmers’ private transfer behavior, retirement behavior, and learning failures are discussed in the three chapters respectively. The first chapter studies the impact of a newly introduced rural pension program on the expenditure patterns of Chinese rural …
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Testing the relationship between public and private transfers : empirical evidence from South Africa
Financial transfers between individuals living away from their households play an important role in the reallocation of resources, particularly in developing countries. Likewise, the involvement of the State in society and public transfers of resources have been extensively documented as to their …
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Social safety nets in presence of weather shocks: three essays on development economics from village economies in Kenya
… of social safety net would crowd out or crowd in private transfers received from social network members, and especially when households are exposed to drought. This chapter is motivated by the paucity of empirical evidence on how antipoverty programs affect informal transfers, particularly in poor …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and management
… Chapter 1: Direct and Indirect Effects of Cash Transfers on Entrepreneurship In this chapter, I exploit a liquidity shock from a large-scale welfare program in Brazil to investigate the importance of credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous …
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Essays on Labour Supply, Retirement, and Consumption
… both parents- and child-household to provide transfers to each other and investigation of joint decisions making in older people's labour supply, savings, and intrafamily transfer choices. The structural parameters are estimated using the Korean Labour and Income Panel Study. I find that …
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Labor productivity, remittance use, and the impact of the poverty alleviation fund program in Nepal
… among the households of Nepal. Remittances are transfers made by migrant workers to their family and relatives in their country of origin. In Nepal, remittances account for 25-30 % of the GDP, and the trend of youths seeking work in other countries-- mostly in Southeast Asia and the Middle …
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Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West
… of labor market earnings, as well as public and private transfers, and capital income. The analysis is framed in terms of national level work-family reconciliation policies, thus revealing how different policies influence not only women’s economic independence, but also the distribution of that …