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Climate Shocks, Household Resource Allocation, and Vulnerability to Poverty

Agriculture, 2022
Climate change is widespread, rapid, and is intensifying. Using Chinese disaster data and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data, this study examines the impact of climate shocks on the vulnerability of farm households to poverty and the mechanism of
Ziming Zhou, Zhiming Yu, Haitao Wu
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Heterogeneous Household Responses to Energy Price Shocks

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
We use survey evidence on reported spending in hypothetical energy price shock scenarios to study novel features of the price elasticity of energy demand and the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) after paying the energy bill. We document several nonlinearities depending on the sign and magnitude of the energy price shock that are economically ...
Gert Peersman, Joris Wauters
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Heterogeneous effects of improving technical efficiency on household multidimensional poverty: evidence from rural Ethiopia

Heliyon, 2021
Smallholder agriculture in developing countries is characterized by low productivity. Improving the productive efficiency of farm households is considered one of the paths to increase productivity and reduce poverty.
Fisseha Zegeye Birhanu, Abrham Seyoum Tsehay, Dawit Alemu Bimerew   +2 more
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Food demand characteristics in Ghana: An application of the quadratic almost ideal demand systems

Scientific African, 2020
In typical developing countries, a one-size-fits-all policies often tend to hurt the poor and vulnerable. Specifically, in food demand studies different social groupings have characteristically heterogeneous demand functions which may require unique ...
Isaac Gershon Kodwo Ansah, Emmanuel Marfo, Samuel Arkoh Donkoh   +2 more
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Public preferences for the improvement of existing piped water provision: a choice experiment in Sri Lanka

Frontiers in Water, 2023
In many developing countries, lack of access to water and its unsustainable use and adverse health impacts are important policy issues. The challenge of improving water services in developing countries is not only limited to the provision of new ...
Prasanna Sisira Kumara Rajapakshe, Mette Termansen, Jouni Paavola   +2 more
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Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland

Environmental Research Letters
Like many other countries, Switzerland offers various incentives to promote residential solar PV, but not all households have equal access to them. Using a microsimulation approach based on merged data from the Swiss Household Budget Survey and Household
Amaia Soubelet, Alexandre Torné, Philippe Thalmann, Evelina Trutnevyte   +3 more
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Effects of vegetable commercialization on household food security: a generalized propensity score matching approach

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
The commercialization of smallholder farmers is seen as the most significant driver of improved food security and household welfare in most countries with low-agricultural economies. This study used a Generalized Propensity Score Matching (GPSM) approach
Asfaw Shaka Gosa, Tebarek Lika Megento, Meskerem Abi Teka   +2 more
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Impact of India’s farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras) on farm households’ economic welfare: An evidence from a national farmers’ survey

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
This study examines the impact of access to India’s farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras, or KVKs) on agricultural households’ welfare using household data from the nationally representative Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households ...
ANJANI KUMAR, A K MISHRA, A K SINGH, SUNIL SAROJ, MISHA MADHAVAN M, P K JOSHI   +5 more
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The uncertainty-driven channel of monetary transmission on household consumption: the role of households’ balance sheet positions

International Review of Economics & Finance
We investigate the combined effects of contractionary monetary policy shocks and policy uncertainty on household consumption behavior. Monetary tightening policies are associated with high uncertainty in the macroeconomy, which can exacerbate their ...
Pragati Priya, Chandan Sharma
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Heterogeneous Credit Impacts on Health Care Spending of the Poor in Peri-Urban Areas, Vietnam

SAGE Open, 2016
Quantile treatment effects are estimated to study the impacts of household credit access on health spending by poor households in one District of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Tinh Thanh Doan, Gibson John, Tuyen Quang Tran   +2 more
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