The changing nature of the consumption expenditure highlights the changes in the consumption pattern of the households. The social and economic changes make the household preference their income for consumption, saving, and investment. The paper tries to analyze household savings which ...
We use an instrumental variable approach to control for the presence of a STM in a household. We find that households with a STM have lower monthly per capita consumption expenditure and monthly per capita food expenditure compared to households without a STM. STMs are not unionised, they work...
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The PFCE represents final consumption expenditure by households and nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs). An alternative source of data for household consumption expenditure is the household consumption expenditure survey (HCES) conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) of I...
Despite acknowledged shortcomings, household consumption and expenditure surveys (HCES) are increasingly being used to proxy food consumption because they are relatively more available and affordable than surveys using more precise dietary assessment methods. One of the most common, significant sources of ...
The monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) was derived by dividing the household consumption expenditure by the household size. The consumption of the household was collected at base line (time of first interview) and endline (after completion of treatment) for patients and accompanying ...
Since one of our primary aims is to examine multiple dimensions of urbanization, we use five datasets that provide different lenses on urban India and food consumption: (1) expenditure survey data for household food consumption23, (2) census data for demographic information25, (3) Global Human ...
Household factorsi. The monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) quintile was assessed using household consumption data. Sets of 11 and 29 questions on the expenditures on food and non-food items, respectively, were used to canvas the sample households. Food expenditure was collected ...
Household consumer expenditure (HCE) is defined by the NSSO as: “… the expenditure incurred by a household on domestic account during a specified period, called reference period. It includes the imputed values of goods and services, which are not purchased but procured otherwise for consumption...
This paper asks whether there is a boy bias in household-level education expenditure for households with children aged 5 to 19 years old in Andhra Pradesh in India, based on Round 2 of the Young Lives survey conducted in 2006. The sample contains 982 households comprising 2578 children. The ...