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This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.
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Recently, there has been considerable interest in estimating food demand structure in China due to its huge market for … households in the central and southern parts of China. Additionally, the magnitudes of the increasing trends differ across the …
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government payments and changes in payments as a result of changes to farm program policies on income inequality among farm …
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This paper measures inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia employing the 2010 Living Standards and … Roemer (1998)'s analytical approach to inequality of opportunity. I use stochastic dominance tests to capture differences in … the conditional distributions of self-assessed health. This test is an initial assessment of inequality emerging from …
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offering high wage premia relative to state industries. Other transitional economies (notably China and Vietnam) have been … directly by diminished allocative efficiency and incentives to acquire education, and indirectly by higher wage inequality and …
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This paper measures the degree of inequality in child mortality rates across districts in India, using data from the … developed districts in all three census years. Further, between 1981 and 2001, the inequality in child mortality seems to have … less developed districts). However, the inequality in female child mortality rates seems to have declined between 1991 and …
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Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) or any subsequent set of goals aiming to reduce poverty worldwide. Related research has developed a multitude of instruments to measure pro-poor growth using absolute and...
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Xi Chen acknowledges generous Doctoral Research Grant from the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University and precious data set provided by the Development Strategy and Governance Division at IFPRI. Conference Travel Grant provided by the Department of Applied Economics and...
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Recent studies have emphasized that the poorest farmers are often net buyers of key commodities and therefore harmed by rising prices. We use LSMS data from Tanzania, Vietnam and Guatemala to test the degree of net purchases or sales by income level. We find that poorer farmers may be net buyers...
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This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship accounting for sectoral differences and focusing on US counties … depends on regional income inequality and a number of control variables. Spatial econometrics techniques are used to account … inequality for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector and the Real Estate, Rental and Leasing sector. However …
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