Do the Poor Pay More? An Empirical Investigation of Price Dispersion in Food Retailing

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lashawn Richburg Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Price Dispersion ◽  
Food Retailing ◽  
The Poor

Adaptivity and Judgment in Rule Verification Tasks: An Empirical Investigation

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-285
Author(s):  
Ann M. Bisantz ◽  
Alex Kirlik
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
Verification Task ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Impact Performance ◽  
The Poor

Recent studies of decision making have suggested that the poor performance typically demonstrated by traditional decision making research is due not to failures on the part of the human, but failures of the empirical studies to test performance in representative situations. In particular, some researchers have studied how experience in an uncertain environment can improve performance. We describe research designed to test the effect of explicit environmental experience on performance on a rule verification task. Participants performed a rule verification task after receiving related experience in the task environment. Results indicated that performance was very similar to that on traditional tasks of this type, in contrast to research which suggested that knowledge of uncertainty should impact performance.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Impact of Microfinance for Women in Albania

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Oltiana Muharremi ◽  
Filloreta Madani ◽  
Erald Pelari
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Micro Enterprises

<p class="Default"><em>Microfinance is defined as any activity involving the offering of financial services such as loans, savings and insurance to individuals with low income.</em><em> </em><em>Creating social value includes reducing poverty and having a better impact to improve living conditions through capital for micro-enterprises; insurance and savings deposits for reducing risk and boosting consumption. Worldwide microfinance actors promote access to basic financial services by developing new tools, a variety of products and the adoption of an integrated banking access.</em></p><p class="Default"><em>Initially, microfinance was largely gender neutral: it sought to provide credit to the poor who had no assets to pledge as collateral. It quickly emerged, however, that women invested their business profits in ways that would have a longer-lasting impact on their families and communities. Consequently women became fundamental to the success of the microfinance model as a poverty alleviation tool. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of microfinance loans in improving the lives of women borrowers, as well as in strengthening their social influence and the microcredit impact in promoting savings. This study is based on an empirical investigation of 384 structured questionnaires and surveys directed at microfinance institutions and their clients in the regions of Vlore and Fier, Albania.</em></p>

scholarly journals ZAKAT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN INDONESIA: A PANEL ANALYSIS AT PROVINCIAL LEVEL

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evi Aninatin Nimatul Choiriyah ◽  
Abdul Kafi ◽  
Irma Faikhotul Hikmah ◽  
Imam Wahyudi Indrawan
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Severity Index ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Panel Analysis ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Poverty Indicators ◽  
Poor Population

As a pillar of Islam and an instrument for poverty alleviation, zakat is perceived as aneffective tool for tackling the problem of poverty in the Muslim world. However,whether zakat is effective in improving indicators of both quantity and quality ofpoverty is still a question requiring empirical investigation. This study is aims toempirically investigate the role of impactful zakat in poverty alleviation as indicated bythe BAZNAS prosperity index (Indeks Kesejahteraan BAZNAS or IKB), at provinciallevel in Indonesia. This study covers annual data from 28 provinces in Indonesia forthe years 2017 and 2018. Data analysis uses a panel-data approach, with threeindicators of poverty – the poverty headcount ratio (P0), poverty gap index (P1), andpoverty severity index (P2) – as dependent variables. The study finds that higherBAZNAS IKB, used as a sign of impactful zakat, significantly reduces P0 but hasinsignificant effect on P1 and P2. The results of this study imply that zakat managersshould put emphasis on the poorest section of the poor population to enableimprovements in poverty indicators through zakat utilization.

scholarly journals Poverty amongst Female-headed Households in Bosnia and Herzegovina: an empirical analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senada Smajic ◽  
Sergio Ermacora
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Female Headed Households ◽  
The Relationship

Poverty amongst Female-headed Households in Bosnia and Herzegovina: an empirical analysisThis paper conducts an empirical investigation of whether female-headed households (FHHs) are over-represented amongst the poor compared to male-headed households in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), measured through the consumption dimension of poverty. Apart from self-reported and demographic definitions of headship, which do not make reference to the economic support provided for a household, households whose headship is assigned according to economic definition are included in the analysis. Moreover, the heterogeneity of FHHs is recognised in our study. In this way, the study avoids the main pitfalls associated with similar studies. Since the relationship between poverty and headship has regional and ethnic characteristics, the specific characteristics of BiH in this context are taken into account. Finally, given that our analysis did not find evidence of FHHs being disadvantaged in terms of household consumption, it cannot be argued that policy measures targeting FHHs would be a useful approach to reducing poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

scholarly journals Price Dispersion and Differentiation in Online Travel: An Empirical Investigation

2002 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric K. Clemons ◽  
Il-Horn Hann ◽  
Lorin M. Hitt
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Price Dispersion ◽  
Online Travel

Mergers in the food retailing sector: An empirical investigation

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Pita Barros ◽  
Duarte Brito ◽  
Diogo de Lucena
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Food Retailing

Housing Price Dispersion: An Empirical Investigation

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Ka Yui Leung ◽  
Youngman Chun Fai Leong ◽  
Siu Kei Wong
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Price Dispersion ◽  
Housing Price
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