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Risk-adjusted poverty in Argentina: measurement and determinants

Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …

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Income fluctuation, poverty and well-being over time: theory and application to Argentina

Cruces, Guillermo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel data has been exploited in theoretical analysis and...

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Is a friend in need a friend indeed? Inclusion and exclusion in mutual insurance networks in southern Ghana

Goldstein, Markus; de Janvry, Alan; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

networks and require interventions to help them cope with risk …

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Consistent estimation of the risk-return tradeoff in the presence of measurement error

Ghosh, Anisha; Linton, Oliver - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper proposes an approach to estimating the relation between risk (conditional variance) and expected returns in … proxy for the volatility in estimating the risk-return relation. Third, our estimation strategy involves the Generalized …

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