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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

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The Cost of Binge Drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...

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The Cost of Binge Drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - CESifo - 2013

differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … new notion of equivalent income, the income level with which the individual would be as well off, evaluated using a …

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Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty

Kanbur, Ravi; Sumner, Andy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Two decades ago, 93% of the world’s poor lived in countries officially classified as Low Income (LICs). Now, 72% of the … world’s poor live in Middle Income Countries (MICs). The dramatic shift has been brought about by fast growth in a number of … global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non …

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Middlemen, Non-Profits and Poverty

Chau, Nancy H; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a 'fair-trade' premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...

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Structural Adjustment, Macroeconomic Adjustment and Poverty: A Methodology for Analysis

Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall …

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