ACHIEVING SOCIAL OBJECTIVES THROUGH PRIVATE TRANSFERS: A Review

Cox, Donald; Jiménez, Emmanuel

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“…This is the reason why we have decided to pursue the strict liquidity constraint indicator, using responses of (b) -(h) from the list as evidence of liquidity constraints. 13 On the basis of these responses, we can identify the liquidity-constrained households who were not able to access credit. Since almost none of the existing multi-purpose household panel surveys include direct questions that identify liquidity constraints (Scott, 2000), the IFPRI data set provides us with valuable information directly to separate the effects of liquidity constraints from those of precautionary saving.…”

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“…The constrained house- 13 The results based on the weaker constraints are available upon request from the corresponding author.…”

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“…For example, Cox and Jimenez (1990) Park (2005) argued that grain stocks were the most important form of precautionary saving in developing countries despite their negative returns. This is a strange situation wherein many impoverished people save their precious resources, which later generate negative returns.…”

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Precautionary saving under liquidity constraints: Evidence from rural Pakistan

Lee

Sawada

2010

Journal of Development Economics

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This paper investigates precautionary saving under liquidity constraints in Pakistan using household panel data. In particular, while we estimates Kimball's (1990) prudence parameter, we deviate from Dynan's (1993) framework by explicitly considering liquidity constraints, as in Zeldes (1989). By doing so, we attempt to differentiate the standard precautionary saving caused by uncertainty from the one due to liquidity constraints.Furthermore, endogenous liquidity constraints are considered to resolve issues of selection biases. In this study, we document substantial evidence of the presence of precautionary saving in Pakistan. More specifically, the estimated prudence is significantly higher for liquidity-constrained households as compared with unconstrained ones. The results support the emerging view that facilitating saving may often be more important than finding better ways of lending to the poor.JEL Classification: E210, O120

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“…The constrained house- 13 The results based on the weaker constraints are available upon request from the corresponding author.…”

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Precautionary saving under liquidity constraints: Evidence from rural Pakistan

Lee

Sawada

2010

Journal of Development Economics

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“…Les transferts fi nanciers sont substantiels, sous forme de donations et d'héritages lorsqu'ils sont reçus par les actifs plus âgés, sous forme d'aides ponctuelles reçues des parents et des grands-parents pour les plus jeunes générations. À l'inverse, ces fl ux remontent généralement les générations dans les pays en développement (Cox et Jimenez, 1990). Les personnes les plus âgées n'ont pas nécessairement de ressources propres, si bien que le soutien pour les vieux jours s'organise surtout dans le cadre familial.…”

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Les transferts ascendants au Bangladesh, une décision familiale?

Wolff¹

2006

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Cet article apporte un éclairage sur la prise de décision dans la famille, dans le domaine des transferts versés par les enfants adultes à leurs parents âgés. D’un côté, un enfant doit composer avec son éventuel conjoint pour s’occuper de ses parents et beaux-parents. De l’autre, chaque enfant peut compter sur un éventuel soutien de ses frères et soeurs pour la prise en charge des ascendants. Nous cherchons ici à savoir dans quelle mesure il importe de prendre en compte ces effets de fratrie pour comprendre les solidarités ascendantes. Nous examinons l’existence d’éventuels arrangements intrafamiliaux à partir de l’enquête MHSS réalisée en 1996 au Bangladesh. Nos résultats économétriques pour les transferts ascendants indiquent que les comportements des frères et soeurs ne sont pas indépendants les uns des autres.This paper sheds light on the decision-making process within the family and deals with private transfers given by adult children to their elderly parents. On the one hand, each child has to bargain with his/her spouse to care for parents and parents-in-law. On the other hand, each child may rely on a potential support from other siblings when helping the parents. We wonder here whether it matters to account for arrangements between siblings to explain the pattern of upstream transfers. We examine the possibility of intra-family arrangements using the MHSS survey conducted in 1996 in Bangladesh. Our econometric results show that the transfer decisions of the various siblings are not independent from each other

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“…There is a large literature of the possible crowding out effect of public transfers over interfamily transfers and charitable contributions (see Cox andJimenez 1990 andJuárez 2009, among many others). However, to the best of our knowledge, there is little research on how international interfamily private transfers affect the incentives of the government to redistribute income (for early work on this issue see Kochi andPonce 2010, 2011). To study these issues, we develop a model of electoral competition in which parties select tax-transfer policies to maximize votes in the election.…”

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Remittances, Lorenz Dominance in the Distribution of Income and Redistribution

Rodríguez

Kochi

2017

Review of Economics and Institutions

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Abstract:We analyze how changes in the distribution of income, characterized by the comparison of Lorenz curves, affect public redistribution for an economy with international interfamily transfers (remittances). Our analysis suggests that a fall in the inequality of income might increase or reduce the government's ability to collect tax revenue and its electoral costs from inefficient taxation which in turn affect public redistribution. The main contribution of this paper is to characterize conditions in which a shift towards a dominant Lorenz curve can lead to an increase or fall in public redistribution. We also find that the composition of a change in the distribution of income, promoted by a change in the distribution of labor income or remittances, leads to different effects on the size of public redistribution. JEL classification: F24, H23, D63, D72

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ACHIEVING SOCIAL OBJECTIVES THROUGH PRIVATE TRANSFERS: A Review

Cited by 138 publications

References 49 publications

Precautionary saving under liquidity constraints: Evidence from rural Pakistan

Precautionary saving under liquidity constraints: Evidence from rural Pakistan

Les transferts ascendants au Bangladesh, une décision familiale?

Remittances, Lorenz Dominance in the Distribution of Income and Redistribution

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