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Gender, Poverty and the Intra-household Distribution of Resources
Findlay, Ronald; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty … female adults and between adults and children affects the incidence and intensity of poverty. The method is consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504217
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The Distributional Consequences of Russia's Transition
Doyle, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498039
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Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083507
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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788942
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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123580
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136431
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How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
Kuziemko, Ilyana; Norton, Michael I; Saez, Emmanuel; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using randomized online surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk). About 5,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive information on U.S. income inequality, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084154
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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program
Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468658
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Middlemen, Non-Profits and Poverty
Chau, Nancy H; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a 'fair-trade' premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528529
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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia
Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124403