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This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …
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-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …
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Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
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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 … still lack a unified framework. Echoing Atkinson (1987), this paper addresses the question of how poverty should be measured …
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This study searches for suggestive evidence of an ethnic inequality trap in educational attainment in Brazil and Chile. The research aims to cover an existing gap in the literature on inequality traps and proposes an empirical approach to assess certain conditions which might imply its...
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Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …
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