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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru....
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
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Longevity and patience
Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes; Sunde, Uwe - 2019
Why does patience vary across individuals and countries? We provide evidence on a widely-hypothesized mechanism, namely that higher longevity fosters patience. Using data on patience for 80,000 individuals in 76 countries, this paper relates exogenous variation in longevity across...
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Agricultural productivity shocks and poverty in India : the short- and long-term effects of monsoon rainfall
Brey, Björn; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2019
This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian … yield is short-lived, but elicits a persistent decline (increase) in wages (food prices). Negative local shocks affect only … wages, but not prices. This indicates that, in the food market, intra-regional trading mitigates the impact of local shocks …
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