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MEASURING HYPOTHETICAL GRANDPARENTS PREFERENCES FOR EQUALITY AND RELATIVE STANDINGS
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Carlsson, Fredrik; Daruvala, Dinky - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001
Individuals’ aversion to risk and inequality, and their concern for relative standing, are measured through experimental choices between hypothetical societies. It is found that on average individuals are both fairly inequality-averse and have a strong concern for relative income. The results...
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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit...
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Keeping Up with the Vaishyas: Caste and Relative Standing
Carlsson, Fredrik; Gupta, Gautam; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005
We investigate the importance of relative income within the Indian Caste system, using a choice experiment. We find that slightly more than half of the marginal utility of income comes from some kind of relative income effects, on average, which is comparable to the results from previous studies...
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How Much Do We Care About Absolute Versus Relative Income and Consumption?
Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001
We find, using survey-experimental methods, that most individuals are concerned with both relative income and relative consumption of particular goods. The degree of concern varies in the expected direction depending on the properties of the good. However, contrary to what has been suggested in...
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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...
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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program
Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468658
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528529
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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia
Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124403
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Poverty and the Welfare State in Inter-war London
Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
In this paper we re-examine poverty among working class households in inter-war London using the newly computerized …–31. First, we examine how the use of different poverty lines affects the number of households found to be in poverty. We then … analyse the effects of the inter-war social security system in relieving poverty. Finally, we estimate what difference it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136690
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Trade, Trade Policy and Poverty: What Are The Links?
Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …
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