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The socio-economic situation of the Arab-Bedouin population in the Negev is examined in light of the general Israeli Arab population. Based on the Galilee Society's social survey for 2004 Israeli Arab poverty incidence was found to be 52% with nearly two thirds in persistent poverty. Among...
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rule to draw some conclusions about the role played by intra-household inequality for children welfare in Albania and look …The present paper aims at contributing to the literature on children welfare evaluation by taking into account for …-household inequality raises the Gini of children welfare by nearly 10 percentage points and that in-kind transfers are more effective than …
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, husband and children, using a complete collective demand system with individual Engel effects. The model contributes to the … factors or policies on the share of resources of each household member. We apply the model to Albania, a country where gender … respect to a fair distribution. The share of resources freed by the male migrant shifts to the left behind children but not to …
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importantly, we find that adding the first child is more costly than adding a third adult and that the marginal cost of children …
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We examine the effect of the 2002-2007 civil conflict in Côte d'Ivoire on children's health status using household … children's exposure to the conflict. We find that children from regions more affected by the conflict suffered significant … health setbacks compared with children from less affected regions. We further examine possible war impact mechanisms using …
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Tradable permits are now widely used to control pollution. We investigate the implications of setting up such a system in another area – population control –, either domestically or at the global level. We first generalize the framework with both tradable procreation allowances and tradable...
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The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in …
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Theoretical and empirical studies exploring the effects of income inequality upon growth reach a disappointing inconclusive result. This paper postulates that one reason for this ambiguity is that income inequality is actually a composite measure of at least two different sorts of inequality:...
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Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
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