Impacts of farmer cooperative membership on household income and inequality: Evidence from a household survey in China

Income Inequality and Household Debt

Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare

This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technol...

Income uncertainty and household savings in China

China’s urban household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the agesaving profile has become U-shaped. To understand these patterns, we analyze a panel of urban Chinese households over the period 1989-2009. We document a sharp increase in income uncertainty, largely due to an increase in transitory variance (the variance in household income attributed to transitory idiosy...

Household Budgets, Household Composition and the Crisis in Indonesia: Evidence from Longitudinal Household Survey Data

Using panel data from Indonesia, the impact of the financial crisis on the welfare of households is examined. Contrasting consumption of the same households in late 1997 and late 1998, mean per capita expenditure (PCE) has declined by around 25% while median PCE has remained constant. The crisis has had its biggest impact on households in the top and bottom quartiles of the PCE distribution. Ho...

Household Income Dynamics in Rural China

It is well known in theory that certain forms of non-linear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and distribution-dependent growth. The potential implications for policy are dramatic: effective social protection from transient poverty will be an investment with lasting benefits, and pro-poor redistribution will promote aggregate economic growth. We test for non-linearity in the...