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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"consumption smoothing"”.
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Rural Credit Markets and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence From Pakistan
… constrained households are not able to smooth consumption due to liquidity constraints, while other households can smooth consumption using a variety of options. The liquidity constraints are costly in terms of welfare loss to the households.
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Consumption Smoothing and Labor Supply Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Tanzania
… in intermittent wage labor as a way to 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 …
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Essays on the current account, consumption smoothing, and the real exchange rate
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Under Risk-Sharing Arrangements: Schooling and Consumption Smoothing in Rural Mexico
… the outcomes (schooling, child labor, and consumption) generated under the informal risk-sharing model with those that would be obtained, forcing households to make choices under autarky. I evaluate the effect of alternative program designs that were also considered in other papers which …
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Remittances, Consumption Insurance and Family Labour Supply
… also studies the dynamics of household earnings, consumption and income from home production using monthly household-level panel data from the Townsend Thai survey. The second substantive chapter examines remittances as a source of insurance for recipient households. I specify a fairly standard …
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Essays on Corporate Finance and Interstate Risk Sharing
… risk sharing has two components: personal income smoothing and personal consumption smoothing. Our results provide evidence that interstate banking deregulation plays an important role in improving personal income smoothing, while it slightly hinders personal consumption smoothing. On the …
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Essays on economic integration among the Gulf Cooperation Council countries
… essay, which considers how much income and<br/>consumption smoothing is undertaken by the GCC countries, where an efficient<br/>smoothing of output fluctuations is vital for reducing the impact of asymmetric<br/>shocks, therefore reducing the cost of adopting a common monetary policy. …
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The impact of mobile money on Rwandan household consumption
Research on consumption patterns in developing countries shows that precautionary savings behaviour is common. This is driven by high-risk exposure to natural and economic shocks, and a lack of formal insurance mechanisms among rural farming households. The spread of mobile phones has introduced …
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Pensions reforms, redistribution and welfare
… The role of the pensions system varies between consumption smoothing and redistribution, or a combination of both. The provision of pensions, whether universal or targeted, has a signficant impact on capital formation and by extension on a host of economic aggregates and welfare. Capital is …
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Financial systems and risk management : the nature and role of financial services for managing poor urban livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda in 2000
… services became a vital part of income and consumption smoothing risk management strategies, and these were key for protecting and managing livelihoods.
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ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS' AID
… to society in terms of a reduced possibility of consumption smoothing. Additionally, it can result in a re-distribution of power among domestic groups, a result that can help identify and explain differing attitudes towards IFIs within developing economies.
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Essays on Economic Crisis and Economic Reform
… impact on the long-term growth trend and the consumption smoothing theory held in the long-run. The third essay is titled ""The Initiation of Economic Reform: the Cases of Public Enterprise Reform and Trade Liberalization."" This part tried to find under what conditions governments initiate …
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Financial literacy, use of finance and welfare in post-apartheid South Africa
… required it, for economic activity and/or for consumption smoothing. But access to finance may not necessarily lead to better welfare. Empirical studies show that in order for access to finance to translate into improved welfare individuals need to possess the relevant financial skills. A …
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Essays in financial innovation and development
… important and are quite effective in enabling consumption smoothing by lower-income households and businesses in Nigeria.
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Essays in Consumer and Small Business Finance
… protection on home equity borrowing and consumption smoothing. Based on a natural experiment of the 2005 US bankruptcy reform, I use a difference-in-difference method to show that consumers increased home equity borrowing when debtor protection at bankruptcy reduced. The house price …
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Student aid and college attendance : analysis of government intervention in the higher education market
… considers the ability of families to smooth consumption in the face of variable income. We find that families are fairly well able to smooth their consumption in the face of variable earnings. Roughly half of this consumption smoothing occurs through offsetting income flows, and, in …
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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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Assessment of the vulnerability of Ethiopian agriculture to climate change and farmers’ adaptation strategies
… that a given shock or set of shocks moves consumption by households below a given minimum level (such as a consumption poverty line) or forces the consumption level to stay below the given minimum requirement if it is already below this level. This is adopted to assess vulnerability at …
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Essays on social networks in development economics
… are understood to play an important role in smoothing consumption risk, particularly in developing countries where formal contracts are limited and financial development is low. Yet understanding why social networks matter is confounded by endogeneity of risk-sharing partners. This chapter, …
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Essays in debt sustainability and financial stability
… asset savings have other roles different than consumption smoothing. They impact repayment incentives and borrowing costs. Whenever debt is enforceable through a fraction of assets that can be confiscated should the government default, equilibrium attachable asset holdings can be different than …
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