Online appendix figure I shows the dynamics of the effect of a change in the price of regular gasoline on the share of gasoline that is regular grade. The plot shows that a permanent increase in the regular price would increase the share of regular gasoline for at least six months. Online appendix figure II shows the distribution across households of the correlation between buying regular gasol...

In this paper we investigate changes in monthly income volatility in low-income households in the United States since the early 1990s, as well as the relationship between that volatility and food insufficiency. Drawing on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we examine whether negative income shocks increase the chances that a household experiences food insufficiency...

We investigate the effect of inequality on the political support for public education funding in a model of endogenous fertility and school choice. In contrast to recent literature we show that when household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income distributions, inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean pr...

Remittances and Income Smoothing Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household level data over the 2000 through 2008 period. We correct for reverse ca...

Insufficient labour income and limited access to employment are critical problems that policy makers must address when designing development strategies in Latin American countries. The persistence of the high incidence of poverty and inequality can be explained largely by the poor performance of labour markets. This Working Paper uses household survey data for Chile, Brazil and Mexico, from the...

the main objective of this study is to examine the impacts of two demand side policies, namely; expanding food industries and externally increase in households’ demand for agricultural goods ,on the growth of products in agricultural subsector. to this end, a social accounting matrix (sam) is constructed based on the latest iranian input- output table released in 2001. then, production multipli...