Low income populations are more severely affected by economic downturns than their high income counterparts because … types of welfare are one mechanism that families can use to buffer the economic shock brought about by income losses due to … unemployment during a recession. As a result, during unfavorable economic conditions, low income households disproportionately rely …

negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference … income. The effects on lifesatisfaction are positive and significant for those under 45, consistent with Hirschman’s (1973 … age groups, and most surprisingly, even own income becomes insignificant for those over 45, while education has …

payments that go to large farms and high-income farm households. Farm commodity program payment limits were first introduced in … payment limits with a cap on the income farmers could earn and still receive farm program payments. The 2008 Farm Act … tightened payment limitations on some producers and replaced the total adjusted gross income (AGI) limit with separate lower …

We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The … and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United States President Barack Obama. We start by deriving an income-CO2 … relationship based on a structural production function, which is a natural way to model the relationship among income, energy …

of participation in land rental markets and to quantify the impact of renting land on households’ crop income and total … income. We find that land rental markets in Kenya enhance productivity and are equitable. The results are consistent across … participation on households’ crop income and total income. After controlling for the endogeneity of rental market participation and …

, poverty severity, and the probability of household income falling below the US$2 and US$1.25/capita/day poverty lines. Results …

income, despite economic growth. Maize is the most widely grown crop, with the maize-growing smallholder population quite ….Our objective in this paper is to test the effects of maize market participation on household income, poverty status, and income …, participation in the maize market has a significant impact on household income and poverty, with the magnitude of impact estimates …

fats] to changes in income (i.e. nutrient-income elasticities) in the region. Annual time series data for 43 countries … examined using the neo-classical growth model, whilst nutrient-income elasticities are estimated based on the aggregate Engel … indicates tendency towards equalization of per capital nutrient intake in SSA countries. Also, the estimated nutrient-income …

policy makers‟ interest. It establishes human capital that makes a substantial contribution to economic and income growth and … equations with three endogenous variables of per capita income change, education change and population change was used for the … analysis. Results indicate that income growth and education growth are positively related while education growth reduces …