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Spatial Inequalities Explained: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...

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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …

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Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …

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Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique

Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings...

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Poverty and Transitions in Health

Adena, Maja; Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes...

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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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Income Satisfaction Inequality and Its Causes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Modelling Low Income Transitions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...

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