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Household responses to adverse income shocks in Latin AmericaReacción de los hogares a sacudidas adversas del ingreso en América Latina
(2001-07)
This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by increasing their labor force participation, selling assets, and cutting back on human capital investments, (ii) that poor households are the most likely to be affected by adverse income shocks, and (iii) that lower-middle-class ...