OBJECTIVE To describe the regional and socioeconomic distribution of household food availability in Brazil. METHODS Data from the 2008-2009 Household Budget Survey on food and beverage acquisition for household consumption, conducted by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), were analyzed. The amounts of foods, recorded during se...

Many developing countries assign local governments increasing responsibilities in fighting poverty. This requires local social policy to go beyond the execution of centrally designed and funded education and health programs. Hence, local governments and their partners have both an opportunity and a need to analyze key local bottlenecks for poverty reduction and social development. Drawing on an...

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 with the new currency on well-being. The result...

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...

The objective of this paper is to provide a measure deprivation in Tunisia. focus will be on non-monetary which complement the profile poor country. work carried out Tunisian data from national survey budget, consumption, and household’s standard living (2015). study tries explore, addition monetary dimension, deprivations Tunisia essential dimensions dignified respectable human life: housing, ...

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...

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...