Sökning: "liquidity constraints"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden liquidity constraints.
1. Self-employment Entry and Survival : Evidence from Sweden
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher-order polynomials in wealth in estimating the relationship with entrepreneurship. They find evidence conflicting with the existence of extensive liquidity constraints in the United States. In this paper, their approach is replicated on Swedish data. LÄS MER
2. From Cradle to Grave : Empirical Essays on Health and Economic Outcomes
Sammanfattning : This thesis contains four independent research papers, which investigate the causal relations between several aspects of health and economic outcomes at different stages of the life course. The first paper investigates the causal effects of maternal deprivation and maltreatment during various periods of childhood on adolescent health and human capital. LÄS MER
3. Essays on Poverty, Risk and Consumption Dynamics in Ethiopia
Sammanfattning : Paper 1. This paper analysed the state of poverty and income distribution in rural and urban Ethiopia during 1994-2000. Poverty declined from 1994 to 1997, and then increased to 2000. LÄS MER
4. Studies on the Determinants and Effects of Health, Inequality and Labour Supply: Micro and Macro Evidence
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays.Essay I (with Susanne Dahlberg) estimates cohort size effects on earnings profiles and further assesses whether these profiles are affected by the individuals' position in the baby boom. LÄS MER
5. Essays on Field Experiments and Impact Evaluation
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Improving Welfare Through Climate-Friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification We use rich survey data to investigate the economic impact of a climate-friendly rice farming method known as the system of rice intensification (SRI) on the welfare of rain-dependent small-holder farmers in Tanzania. SRI reduces water consumption by half, which makes it a promising farming system in the adaptation to climate change in moisture constrained areas, and it does not require flooding of rice fields, resulting in reduced methane emissions. LÄS MER