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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"asset accumulation"”.
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Behavioral Aspects of Retirement Savings: How do 401(K) Plans Affect Household Asset Accumulation?
… on the impact that 401(k) plan have on household asset accumulation. The first essay looks at how much asset accumulation can be attributed to 401(k) plans as opposed to other factors such as demographics and saver type characteristics. Overall, the conclusions are consistent with recent research …
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Financial Asset Accumulation by Poor Adolescents Participating in Child Savings Accounts in Low Resource Communities in Uganda
… examined savings attitudes and financial asset accumulation of poor and vulnerable school-going AIDS-orphaned adolescents involved in a subsidized matched child savings program in Uganda and being cared for by a living parent (adolescents who have lost one parent) or by an adult guardian …
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Asset trajectories and child outcomes: Implications for asset-based policies
… number of countries have proposed or implemented asset-building policies targeting children. Much of the research on assets, however, has focused on the predictors of asset holding, and little is known about asset accumulation trajectories. This is especially so for families with young children. …
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Social Capital and Economic Empowerment: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Changes in the Value of Accumulated Assets and Measures of Social Capital among Rural South African Women
… explored the relationship between household asset accumulation over time and measures of social capital among impoverished rural South African women. The study re-analyzed an existing data set from a 2001–2005 study done in eight villages in South Africa. The original study investigated the …
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Margins in the mountains: poverty dynamics in India’s western and eastern Ghats
… women’s power and other covariates on household asset accumulation? 4) What are the local perspectives on government policy schemes? Qualitative results indicate a general positive outlook of wellbeing that does not differ due to household land ownership or ST membership, but does show slight …
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US Financial Expansions and Exchange Rate Determination
… I use the increase in shadow banking asset accumulation relative to commercial banking asset accumulation as indicative of financial expansions in the US, and the driving force of financial cycles. Using vector autoregression (VAR) analysis I test the relationships between the ratio of …
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Essays on development economics
… successfully reduced fertility, on households' asset accumulation. In developing countries parents expect their children to take care of them when they are old. Children also help parents to smooth consumption over their life cycle. They send remittances when parents are old and have relatively …
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Remittances, Consumption Insurance and Family Labour Supply
… by households' self-insurance behaviour through asset accumulation. On the other hand, remittances only explain 11% of consumption smoothing against wage shocks. Interestingly, households with low educational attainment rely more on remittances as a source of insurance while those with higher …
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Essays on optimal taxation
… that the lack of commitment may lead to some asset accumulation in the short run. Chapter 2 determines the optimal tax schedule when education is endogenous and observable, in a setting where agents have heterogeneous abilities. It finds that, for each ability level, it is optimal to subsidize …
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Microfinance in rural Ghana : a view from below
… consumption more than it does to household asset accumulation. Poorer service users reported more household and business benefits. The findings suggest a reappraisal of the design of microfinance interventions, especially in rural areas.
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Asset dynamics and the long-term impact of microfinance in rural Bangladesh
… mechanisms of lasting poverty in terms of asset ownership and the ways in which households accumulate productive assets over time. Using a panel data set from Bangladesh, this study identifies the productive assets of rural households in three different study sites over two rounds. Using …
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Impact of Microfinance Grants on Rural Development: A case study of Kavango East Regional Council
… unemployment rate. Poverty alleviation through asset accumulation and food security, financial inclusion through opening of business banking accounts, business growth and diversification were variables considered to indicate rural development. The literature indicates that microfinance has both …
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Why do the poor stay poor? Three essays on asset dynamics and poverty traps
… diversification for agricultural households for asset accumulation, and does it depend on their wealth? The analysis focuses (a) on the case of Nigeria and a devastating flood, (b) on refugees and host communities in Uganda and (c) on agricultural households in Tanzania, respectively. Results …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… fertility, female labor force participation and asset accumulation decisions, is estimated using data for the 1960s and 1970s. The model shows how fertility and women’s labor participation decisions are related and replicates countercyclical fertility. The changes in the determinants of female …
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Essays on Retirement Behavior during the Housing Boom and Bust
… an unknown proportional housing wealth in the asset accumulation equation; the modified model has a home equity borrowing constraint. New models also take into account housing wealth change in the bequest motive component. </p> <p>Both the baseline and modified models match the labor-force …
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Micro-Impact: Deconstructing the complex impact process of a simple microinsurance product in Indonesia
… the assumed post-mortem financial crisis of low-asset families. Through qualitative-explorative field research from 2006 until 2008 I investigated if this developmental intention was realized. It is the first impact analysis on microinsurance in Indonesia. In the research process, I took the …
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Examining Immigrant Experiences in Asset Building: Implications for Asset-Based Policies
… with late but now growing attention on their asset- and wealth-building. Current research on immigrants’ asset building has largely focused on their individual-level characteristics, and not much on opportunities and constraints related to policy arrangements. This dissertation addresses the …
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Essays on innovation, productivity, and talent allocation
… innovative output of the economy: innovators' accumulation of human capital. Using a newly constructed data set on the patenting history of all individuals obtaining a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1980 and 2005, I find that cohorts graduating …
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Reinventing Infrastructure Economics: Theory and Empirics
… complex strategy was to leverage existing assets by operating faster, longer, and heavier trains on the supply-side, as opposed to investing in asset accumulation. On the demand-side, the Railways shed a monopoly mind-set in favor of customer centric, dynamic, and differential pricing and …
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An analysis of capital flight : the case of Hong Kong
… The political disturbance led to an autonomous asset preference shift from domestic to foreign bonds, resulting in a rise in the domestic interest rate and a depreciation of the exchange rate. The output effect is found to be negative in a fixed exchange rate system while it is ambiguous under a …
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