Author : Alberto Chong
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis Bundling Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries by : Alberto Chong
Download or read book Bundling Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries written by Alberto Chong. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using panel data for Peru for 1994-2000, Chong, Hentschel, and Saavedra find that when households receive two or more services jointly, the welfare increases, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided separately. The increases appear to be more than proportional, as F-tests on the coefficients of the corresponding regressors confirm. Thus, the authors find that bundling services may help realize welfare effects.This paper - a joint product of the Human Development Department and the Poverty Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, in cooperation with the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank - is part of a larger effort to understand the microeconomic determinants of household welfare changes in developing countries.