Vulnerability in Consumption, Education, and Health : Evidence from Moldova during the Russian Crisis
The authors analyze the widespread effects of the financial crisis in Russia to explore the vulnerabilities of households in Moldova. They show that the crisis had differential impacts on households, affecting most the urban and better-off. Househo...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/04/2210556/vulnerability-consumption-education-health-evidence-moldova-during-russian-crisis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18255 |
| Summary: | The authors analyze the widespread
effects of the financial crisis in Russia to explore the
vulnerabilities of households in Moldova. They show that the
crisis had differential impacts on households, affecting
most the urban and better-off. Households' decisions
about education and health resulted in decreased utilization
and expenditures. The enrollment of young children from
better-off households did not improve while others did.
Secondary school enrollment of children from better-off
households decreased after the crisis, in part because of
the need to release labor supply. Health utilization
decreased mainly for primary health care (not for
hospitals), both for better-off households and in rural
areas. Some of these changes are due to limited household
resources (health), decreased public spending (health and
education) or the need to increase households' labor
supply (education of teenagers). Social benefits played a
very limited role in mitigating these effects, solely in
health care use. Households' assets helped to offset
some of the negative effects of declining incomes. |
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