Essays about: "Heterogeneous households"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words Heterogeneous households.
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1. Child Labor as a Coping Mechanism: Children’s Time Use Responses to Community and Individual Shocks
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis explores the impact of community and individual shocks on children’s time use and aims to determine if and under what conditions households use child labor as a response to shocks. For this purpose, four survey rounds of a panel of Ethiopian children aged 5 to 15 are analysed. READ MORE
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2. Decomposing the Consumption Response to Monetary Policy Shocks in Australia
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : 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
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3. The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries. A Case Study: Bolsa Família in Brazil
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Bolsa Família is one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world. It provides cash transfers to poor households, conditional on human capital requirements such as minimum school attendance. READ MORE
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4. Multilevel Cox Regression of Transition to Parenthood among Ethiopian Women
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statistiska institutionenAbstract : The birth of the first child is a special event for a mother whose life can change dramatically. In Ethiopia women’s timing to enter motherhood vary between the regions. READ MORE
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5. The Effects of a Nominal Renminbi Appreciation: A Heterogeneous Agent Approach
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Recent decades have seen the development of significant asymmetries in the global balance of payments, which many critics argue have incited crises and contributed to growing financial instability. Often cited as a contributing factor to these asymmetries has been the artificial suppression of the value of Chinese currency, especially in the first decade of the 21st century. READ MORE