Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177025 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11221
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models for the determinants of financial stress for Indigenous and non-Indigenous households and show the importance of separately considering Indigenous disadvantage. We use these models to build equivalence scales for both groups. We find evidence consistent with financial stress being exacerbated by demand-sharing ("humbugging"). The evidence also suggests that financial stress is reduced by engagement in traditional hunting and gathering activities.
Subjects: 
financial stress
hardship
cash ow
equivalence scales
indigenous poverty
JEL: 
I31
I32
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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