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Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China
Whalley, John - 2006
rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … poverty point to the policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to …
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Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 A Success ... And for the Poor?
Cook, Lisa D. - 2011
The Nigerian banking system was in crisis for much of the 1990's and early 2000's. The reforms of 2005 were ambitious in simultaneously attempting to address safety, soundness, and accessibility. This paper uses published and new survey data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation...
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Perceptions and Preferences for Redistribution
Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The relationship between the degree of inequality and the demand for redistribution has been a central question in political science and political economy. The famous median-voter model predicts that higher inequality, reflected in a growing gap between the income of the average and the median...
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Causation Among Socioeconomic Time-Series
Michael, Robert T. - 1978
Using annual U. S. time series data from 1950-1974, formal tests of causation are performed among three socioeconomic phenomena: women's labor force participation rates, fertility rates, and divorce rates. Box-Jenkins and other techniques are employed with Granger-Sims type definition of...
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Multinomial Choice with Social Interactions
Brock, William A. - 2003
This paper develops a model of individual decisionmaking in the presence of social interactions when the number of available choices is finite. We show how a multinomial logit model framework may be used to model such decisions in a way that permits a tight integration of theory and...
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Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Socioeconomic Behavior
Durlauf, Steven N. - 1996
This paper provides a unified framework for interpreting a wide range of interactions models which have appeared in the economics literature. A formalization taken from the statistical mechanics literature is shown to encompass a number of socioeconomic phenomena ranging from out of wedlock...
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The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity
Baum, Charles L. - 2011
An increasing number of Americans are obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. In fact, the latest estimates indicate that about 30% of Americans are currently obese, which is roughly a 100% increase from 25 years ago. It is well accepted that weight gain is caused by caloric imbalance,...
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Capabilities and Skills
Heckman, James J. - 2016
This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on...
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Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs
Huang, Yue; Hsiang, Solomon; González-Navarro, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The rigorous evaluation of anti-poverty programs is key to the fight against global poverty. Traditional approaches … a recent anti-poverty program in rural Kenya. Leveraging a large literature documenting a reliable relationship between …
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Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting : Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module
Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....
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