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New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …

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Binary Choice Models with Discrete Regressors: Identification and Misspecification

Komarova, Tatiana - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

In semiparametric binary response models, support conditions on the regressors are required to guarantee point identification of the parameter of interest. For example,one regressor is usually assumed to have continuous support conditional on the other regressors. In some instances, such...

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Binary Choice Models with Discrete Regressors: Identification and Misspecification

Komarova, Tatiana - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...

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A Note on the Estimation of Intergenerational Income Correlations by the Method of Averaging

Naga, Ramses H. Abul - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2001

Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...

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On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems

Schluter, Christian - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1997

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

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Growing Apart: Inequality and Poverty Trends in Brazil in the 1980s

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Litchfield, Julie - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1996

This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and … performed to infer population dominance, generating robust welfare and inequality comparisons. Analogously, mixed stochastic …

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Estimating Welfare Indices: Household Weights and Sample Design

Cowell, Frank A; Jenkins, Stephen P - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2000

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...

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