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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with … poverty rates that are much higher than the rest of the population. Since independence, the Indian government has enacted …

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Poverty, Inequality, and the Local Natural Resource Curse

Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …

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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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In-Work Benefits for Married Couples: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy

De Luca, Giuseppe; Rossetti, Claudio; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

WTC is more effective than the EITC in fighting poverty. In both schemes, the trade-off between labor supply incentives …

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Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City

Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...

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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America

Cuesta, Jose; Nopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty. …

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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...

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Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China

Chen, Xi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Blood collection following nonstandard operations largely increases the risks of infectious diseases through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than one million people. Many blood banks...

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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

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Does Development Reduce Migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...

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