BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to evaluate whether a diversity of healthy foods in a household would decrease the availability of unhealthy foods and to evaluate the association between a healthy dietary diversity score (DDS) and nutritional status among adults. METHODS Data from the 2002-2003 Brazilian Household Budget Survey were used. This nationwide survey used a two-stage samplin...

Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German SocioEconomic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric approach is also used to analyze the impact of difficulties wit...

Crisis may spread through economy via the propagating mechanisms of the labourmarket – households becoming delinquent due to an initial unemployment shockmay be unable to continue servicing obligations versus the financial system. With large debts – e.g. mortgages – such defaults pose a threat to financial system stability. In this paper we use the Polish household budget surveys to simulate th...

We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate poverty reduction impacts of selection medium-to-long-term social grant options with goal replacing existing special COVID-19 Social Relief Distress upon its expiry and closing extreme (food line) gap. Our key findings are that introduction household-targeted family is theoretically able redu...

Jinzhu Duan, Costin Gherghe, Dianxin Liu, Eric Hamlett, Luxman Srikantha, Laurel Rodgers, Jenna N Regan, Mauricio Rojas, Monte Willis, Andrew Leask, Mark Majesky and Arjun Deb* Department of Medicine, McAllister Heart Institute and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, McAllister Heart Institute a...

Household energy in sub-Saharan Africa is largely derived from woodfuels burned in simple stoves with poor combustion characteristics. These devices emit products of incomplete combustion [PICs] that both damage human health and negatively impact the atmospheric radiation budget. We use empirical studies and published emission factors to estimate the pollution associated with production, distri...

The standard intertemporal model of open economy with a dynamic budget constraint predicts that investment and saving should be cointegrated as long as the economy does not violate its budget constraint. Recent empirical studies of the long run investment-saving comovement for the 1947:1–1987:3 period US data, however, report conflicting findings: some studies find that the time series of inves...

Stephen E. Schauer, Teresa A. Golden, Delwin S. Merchant, Biranchi N. Patra, Jean D. Lang, Sumita Ray, Bulbul Chakravarti, Deb Chakravarti, and Animesh Ray Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA and Keck Graduate Institute, 535 Watson Drive, Claremont, CA 91711, USA Address communication to: Animesh Ray, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA 91711; Phone: (909...

Consumption is one of the key concepts in economics due to its animate connections with GDP, savings, and utility. The current study aims analyse relationship between household consumption expenditures some characteristics Turkey through Household Budget Surveys TurkStat for years 2002 2018. With implementation quantile regression estimations, it shown that disposable income emerges as a very i...

Abstract Using a comprehensive database of all the decisions made under European and U.K. competition laws over 15-year period to 2020, alongside households’ consumption market data, we estimate level distribution savings from enforcement across United Kingdom. We find that law generated greater proportional for lower- average-income households relative wealthiest households. Our estimations in...