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The Knowledge Trap : Human Capital and Development Reconsidered
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2008
knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps, and price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464508
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Intrahousehold Inequality
Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2014
Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458473
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Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data : The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008
Using the Census Bureau's internal March Current Population Surveys (CPS) file, we construct and make available variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure that allows researchers with access only to the public-use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464189
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Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)
Larrimore, Jeff - 2008
Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the larger research community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public use March CPS that has been topcoded since 1976. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464708
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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College
Carneiro, Pedro - 2003
This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469154
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996
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Inequality Within Countries is Falling : Underreporting-Robust Estimates of World Poverty, Inequality and the Global Distribution of Income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
distribution has become particularly important in recent decades. We reconfirm the findings of the literature that global poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512057
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Income Inequality and Poverty
Feldstein, Martin - 1998
distributional problem is not inequality but poverty. The paper considers three sources of poverty and asks what if anything might be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472044
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The Poverty of Nations : A Quantitative Exploration
Chari, V. V. - 1996
We document regularities in the distribution of relative incomes and patterns of investment in countries and over time. We develop a quantitative version of the neoclassical growth model with a broad measure of capital in which investment decisions are affected by distortions. These distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473450
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Rising Inequality? Changes in the Distribution of Income and Consumption in the 1980s
Cutler, David M. - 1992
well-being in place of measures based on current money income docs change conclusions concerning the extent of poverty in … the United Stales. Using the official federal poverty thresholds. we find that the overall consumption poverty rate was … three percentage points below the income poverty rate in 1988. Comparisons of the poverty rates of the elderly and the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475017