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Analysis of Resource Inflows and Their Impact on Household Behaviour: Evidence from South Africa

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Household Behaviour, Equivalence Scales, Welfare and Poverty

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This paper investigates, on South African data, the impact of alternative resource inflows on household expenditure using a framework that allows the resource inflows and expenditure to be determined simultaneously. This study, also, provides South African evidence on the impact of resource inflows on household size and composition. The results on panel data provide evidence of fluidity of household structure, and point to new hypotheses on the effects of household resources on household composition.

Paper prepared for Conference on “Equivalence Scales, Poverty, Household Behaviour and Welfare” held in Florence, Italy, from 27–28 June 2002. Comments from the conference participants are gratefully acknowledged. The authors also acknowledge financial support provided by the Australian Research Council, from the Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and from the University of Tasmania.

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  1. Department of Economics, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria, 3168, Australia

    Pushkar Maitra

  2. School of Economics, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-85, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia

    Ranjan Ray

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche “P. Fortunati”, Università di Bologna, Via Belle Arti, 41, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    Camilo Dagum

  2. Dipartimento di Statistica “G. Parenti”, Università di Firenze, Viale Morgagni, 59, 50134, Firenze, Italy

    Guido Ferrari

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Maitra, P., Ray, R. (2004). Analysis of Resource Inflows and Their Impact on Household Behaviour: Evidence from South Africa. In: Dagum, C., Ferrari, G. (eds) Household Behaviour, Equivalence Scales, Welfare and Poverty. Contributions to Statistics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2681-4_7

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