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poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to …
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Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a … search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few … provides non-divisible services to consumers, with physicians our prime example. Examining local income inequality across U …
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service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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This paper uses the 2000 Census 1-in-6 sample to look at the long-term impact of Vietnam-era military service. Instrumental Variables estimates using draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings losses close to zero in 2000, in contrast with earlier results showing substantial earnings...
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This paper estimates and quantifies the impact of the diaspora remittance flows on the conflict intensity and outcomes in the Sri Lankan Civil War during the period 1996-2009. We develop an approach to infer which remittance inflows were likely to benefit the Tamil Tiger rebels relative to the...
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We propose a novel Bayesian Graded Response Model (BGRM) for food security measurement. Our BGRM has several attractive features. It produces continuous food security estimates and measures of estimation uncertainty at the household level. Unlike the USDA's official measurement model, the BGRM...
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In 2021, the U.S. Congress temporarily expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers without a qualifying child … new benefits to low-income young adults. Using data from the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey and a difference … low-income, childless, young adults, and suggestive evidence that it also reduced food insufficiency and difficulty with …
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income, but also education and health. However, the low country-level resolution of the global HDI data released by the Human …
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We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...
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