Essays about: "low-income households"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 45 essays containing the words low-income households.

  1. 6. Here Comes the Sun: Imagination, Development, and Technology in Malawi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Catarina Santos; [2022]
    Keywords : Applied Cultural Analysis; Development; Energy access; Imagination; Malawi; Solar technology; Technology.; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper explores how electrical appliances, together with the idea of attaining energy access in the near future, create hope in a northern village in Malawi. Even though less than one per cent of the rural population has energy access, some of these locals already own solar systems. READ MORE

  3. 7. Decomposing the Consumption Response to Monetary Policy Shocks in Australia

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Jessica Geraghty; [2022]
    Keywords : Consumption; Household heterogeneity; Income distribution; Marginal propensity to consume; Monetary policy transmission;

    Abstract : Does monetary policy affect households differently depending on their position on the income distribution? If so, what drives the differences? This paper attempts to answer these questions by decomposing changes in consumption following a monetary policy shock into several direct and indirect channels of transmission. Although direct channels of transmission are the most important in traditional representative agent models, the indirect channels are dominant when households are heterogeneous. READ MORE

  4. 8. Inflation, Unemployment, and Happiness: Misery Index Weights in Europe

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jón Sjúrður Pálsson Arge; [2022]
    Keywords : happiness economics; inflation; unemployment; misery index; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper uses micro- and macrolevel data to examine the effects of unemployment and inflation on subjective happiness in Europe. Using data on subjective happiness from the most recent survey waves of the European Social Survey (2004-2018), we find negative coefficients for both unemployment and inflation. READ MORE

  5. 9. Housing mix for socially mixed neighbourhoods : A study of socioeconomic residential segregation in Swedish midsized cities

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Josefine Sjöholm; [2022]
    Keywords : residential segregation; socioeconomic; housing mix; social mix; housing market; boendesegregation; socioekonomi; bygga blandat; social blandning; bostadsmarknad;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to study in how far housing mix contributes to social mix in Swedish midsized cities 2017. Social mix is a policy in Sweden argued to reduce socioeconomic residential segregation, by implementing housing mix to achieve heterogenous residential areas. READ MORE

  6. 10. Border Carbon Adjustment and Inequality: Distributional Equity Concerns About the EU CBAM's Impacts in South Africa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Jannick Leukers; [2022]
    Keywords : Border carbon adjustment; CBAM; Carbon pricing; Inequality; South Africa; Intervention theory; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Border carbon adjustment (BCA) policies are increasingly discussed as an instrument to avoid carbon leakage; however, their social implications are not well understood. Nevertheless, the EU introduced its CBAM, which will take effect in 2026. READ MORE