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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"household spending"”.
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Institutions and development: Evidence from Vietnam
… to club goods. The optimal level of club-good spending absent perfect enforcement is higher than that with perfect enforcement. Even the weakest form of coordination in club good provision, the voluntary contribution, can create certain level of enforcement. The first part of the second paper, …
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Essays on the economics of tobacco and alcohol control policy in Kenya
… countries. The thesis uses the two most recent household and budget surveys (2005/6 and 2015/16), to examine some of the effects of the tobacco and alcohol control policies that were implemented in Kenya between 2005 and 2015. Chapter 2 considers the impact of consumption and taxation of tobacco …
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Regional catalytic economic impacts and noise-damage costs of aviation growth
… in addition to the direct, indirect, or induced household spending impacts. These economic catalytic effects are fundamentally different from traditional measures of the impacts from spending in the air transport sector. In contrast to the generally positive regional economic benefits of …
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Ability of Agricultural Bankers to Forecast Farm Income and Expenditures
… of the movement of farm income, 88% of capital spending and 90% of household spending. Similar high performance is observed at the state level. The outcome of the study is significant to bankers, because having an early indication of future movements in income of farmers will assist bankers as …
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Opportunities and challenges in new survey data collection methods using apps and images.
… an app for mobile devices to collect data about household spending, the Understanding Society Spending Study One. Participants were asked to report their spending by submitting a photo of a receipt, entering information about a purchase manually, or reporting that they had not spent anything that …
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ESSAYS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS
… of recreational marijuana use (RMLs) on household spending on food and alcohol over the period 2005 to 2018. Utilizing expenditure as a proxy for consumption, I combine data from the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey coupled with state policy changes using two-way fixed effects …
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Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality
… sources of inequality in black and white households’ ability to acquire goods and services. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the three studies that comprise this dissertation. The first study is presented in Chapter 2. This study provides a critique of current cultural approaches …
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The Heterogeneity of Consumer Behavior: Analyzing Entertainment Expenditures in Relation to Lifecycles, Business Cycles and Demographic Influences
… but often underemphasized, component of household spending to demonstrate how consumers behave in relation to this discretionary spending category. The research employs a multifaceted approach, using quarterly household-level data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) to explore …
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Economic and health implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa: a household expenditure analysis
… 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 landscape. …
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THREE ESSAYS ON FIRST NATIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
… of economic leakage and multiplier effects of spending. The second essay explores the issue of food insecurity as an implication of underdevelopment in First Nations reserve economies. Finally, the last essay investigates First Nation Governments’ investment in band-owned businesses and …
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Analysing the effect of taxation on consumer behaviour in the tourism industry.
… overemphasized. This thesis argues that, at the household level in the European Union (EU), the impact of tourism taxes on household decision to spend on domestic tourism is different across regions within the EU. Additionally, specific socio-demographic features of the household moderate the …