Essays about: "Income Shocks"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 48 essays containing the words Income Shocks.

  1. 11. Credit Supply and its Impact on Small Businesses during the Great Recession: An Empirical Study of Low and High Income Counties in the US

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Robin Nordström; Cornelia Glowacki; [2022]
    Keywords : Small business loans; Credit supply; Great Recession; Inequality;

    Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic effects that the reduction of credit that followed the Great Recession had on small businesses. We find that the supply of bank credit to small businesses in times of crisis does not discriminate against businesses in low income regions, but rather that the economic effects are the same through a nation-wide perspective. READ MORE

  3. 12. The Stability of the Mortgage Market in Sweden 2022 : How households’ debt to income has been affected by monetary policy and increasing house prices

    University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Jack Aras; Olof Bäck; [2022]
    Keywords : House Prices; Inflation; Debt to Income; Monetary Policy; Sweden;

    Abstract : The relationship between debt and income is an indicator in the stability for households to face certain external shocks. A large debt to income will be costly if interest rates are high. This thesis will analyze the relationship between other economic factors regarding debt to income. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Marriage the Merrier: Examining the Role of Family Labor Supply in Consumption Inequality

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Filip Stubbfält; [2022]
    Keywords : Economic Inequality; Family Labor Supply; Consumption Smoothing;

    Abstract : Using data from the Panel Study of Income dynamics between 2009 and 2019, I first document that the disconnect between consumption and earnings inequality holds for married households but not single households. Married households seem to behave consistently with the Permanent Income Hypothesis, smoothing out their consumption based on their expected lifetime incomes. READ MORE

  5. 14. The effects of parental unemployment on children's health in China

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Mengya Wang; [2022]
    Keywords : Parental unemployment; Child health; Nutritional intake; the State-owned enterprise reform;

    Abstract : This thesis uses data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) from 1991 to 2004 to estimate the short-term effects of parental unemployment on children's health through exogenous shocks from state-owned enterprise reforms at the end of the last century by employing fixed effects and instrumental variables methods. Findings show that parental unemployment decreases children's weight z-scores and reduces the frequency with which children have been ill or hurt in the past month. READ MORE

  6. 15. The sensitivity of the Maasai Mara Conservancy Model to external shocks

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Shreya Chakrabarti; [2021]
    Keywords : Environmentality; environmental governance; ecotourism; community-based conservation; neoliberal conservation; Covid-19 pandemic;

    Abstract : Biodiversity loss caused by human activities is considered to be one of the greatest challenges to the stability of our planet. Protected areas emerged as a solution to this challenge, but they are not always successful due to the exclusion and displacement of local communities that live in proximity to the protected area, especially in low income countries. READ MORE