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Consumption Smoothing and Livestock in Rural Burkina Faso

by: samanta, 45 pages

This paper tests the extent of consumption smoothing between 1981 and 1985 in rural Burkina Faso. In particular, we examine the extent to which livestock, grain storage, transfers and reorganization ...

Consumption Smoothing among Working-Class American Families before Social Insurance

by: samanta, 39 pages

This paper examines whether the saving decisions of a large sample of working- class American families around the turn of the twentieth century are consistent with consumption smoothing tendencies in ...

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