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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

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

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; … - CESifo - 2012

domestic prices. Under perfect pass-through, the mandate leads to a reduction in rural poverty by about 39 million people, and … poverty increase by a total of 8 million people. Our study suggests that the US biofuel mandate may lead to modest increase in …

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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …

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Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories: Socioeconomic Status and Diets

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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A Behaviour-based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India

Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders; Somanathan, Rohini - CESifo - 2013

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …

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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2013

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well]being...

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Health, Wealth and Inequality: a Contribution to the Debate about the Relationship between Inequality and Health

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the 19th century relationship between material inequality and...

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Living Standards in Black and White: Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 – 1913

Carson, Scott A.; Maloney, Thomas N. - CESifo - 2006

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...

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Trends of Children’s Height and Parental Unemployment: A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 – 2006

Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - CESifo - 2008

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 – except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050...

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