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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"income quintiles"”.
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Distributional effects of net metering policies and residential solar plus behind-the-meter storage adoption
… to 100,000 customers' half-hourly load data and income quintiles from Chicago, IL, we simulate the operation of residential solar and behind-the-meter battery systems under 20%, 45% and 70% adoption levels and calculate both resulting bills for every client in the dataset, as well as cost shifts …
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Internal displacement and the education of school-aged children in Colombia
… Finally, the results show that higher household income is associated with greater enrollment, but in a nonlinear way: if a household belongs to the first three income quintiles the probability of enrollment does not increase significantly, but for the fourth and fifth income quintiles, the …
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Analysing the effect of financial inclusion on income inequality in Namibia
… the effect of financial inclusion on household income and well-being, much is not known about the distributional effects across the different income quintiles. This study contributes to the literature by examining the effect of financial inclusion on household well-being and income inequality in …
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A Transport Justice Evaluation of Employer-Based Transit Subsidies
… of transit subsidies varies significantly by income, and whether the subsidies are significantly associated with accessibility as measured by daily trip levels. I use worker-level data from household travel surveys for 10 of the 22 largest MPOs in the U.S., organized into 7 cases: 1) Atlanta; …
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Essays on Consumer Bankruptcy, Employment, Firm Dynamics, and Aging in the United States
… spread, and the increase in credit access by income quintiles. The second chapter quantifies the effect of investment-specific productivity and labor augmenting productivity in causing the decrease in low-skilled manufacturing employment concentrated in recessions. When the transition is …
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A hierarchical and longitudinal analysis of the effects of international food and agricultural commodity price surges on domestic income distribution
… and professionals is whether the distribution of income within nations is becoming less equitable due to the forces of globalization. This study investigated the effect of a single global economic event, the 2006 to 2008 global food price surges, on domestic income distribution in Argentina. The …
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Essays on Health Economics
… of diabetes in terms of exercise, diet, income, or employment. These results are robust to different specifications and datasets. The third chapter provides empirical evidence on both outcomes and potential mechanisms resulting from information obtained from screening. We apply a …
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The Heterogeneity of Consumer Behavior: Analyzing Entertainment Expenditures in Relation to Lifecycles, Business Cycles and Demographic Influences
… spending patterns differ across various income levels, lifecycle stages, and macroeconomic conditions and how these differences change through time. The first empirical part analyzes the income elasticity of entertainment expenditure during business cycles, particularly focusing on the …
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Revisiting the Housing Allowance Algorithm and its Theoretical Implications on Rental Housing Demand and Rents. Evidence from New Zealand.
… direct cash allowance to assist low- and middle-income households in the private residential market in New Zealand. Generally, housing allowances are argued to be inflationary due to the programmes reliance on the market to satisfy the ‘subsidized’ demand. This argument makes it market …
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An economic and institutional analysis of community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe
… household welfare in terms of total household income and reduction in poverty and inequality, lack of capacity by local communities to solve collective action problems or lack of incentives to self-organise, and lack of comparable successful outcomes in CBNRM communities such as the wildlife …
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Three Essays on Health Economics
… to the classifications among the highest income quintiles is lower than among the other quintiles, consistent with more educated individuals incorporating information directly from the blood sugar measure itself.