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Social Capital I : Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility
Chetty, Raj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
connectedness can explain well-known relationships between upward income mobility and racial segregation, poverty rates, and …
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Social Capital II : Determinants of Economic Connectedness
Chetty, Raj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Low levels of social interaction across class lines have generated widespread concern and are associated with worse outcomes, such as lower rates of upward income mobility. Here, we analyze the determinants of cross-class interaction using data from Facebook, building upon the analysis in the...
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Measuring Relative Poverty through Peer Rankings : Evidence from Côte D'Ivoire
Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Houeix, Deivy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate a method for eliciting relative poverty rankings that aggregates partial poverty rankings obtained from … reported by respondents and constructed aggregate rankings are poorly correlated with measures of poverty obtained from survey … data. Measuring relative poverty through peer rankings appears difficult in urban and periurban settings …
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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2006
This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466301
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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth
Dehejia, Rajeev - 2007
childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics …
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Are the World’s Poorest Being Left Behind?
Ravallion, Martin - 2014
The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457875
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Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty : Free College or Better Schools
Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...
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The problems of disadvantaged youth : an economic perspective
Gruber, Jonathan (ed.) - 2009
Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber -- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth -- Is gaining access to selective elementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800493
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Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening : Evidence from India
Goldberg, Jessica - 2018
We use a field experiment with 3,176 patients at 122 tuberculosis treatment clinics in India to test whether peer …
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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Breza, Emily - 2016
The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...
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