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Poverty and Individual Responsibility
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2020
Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838242
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When Pro-Poor Microcredit Institutions Favor Richer Borrowers - A Moral Hazard Story
Biancini, Sara; Venet, Baptiste; Ettinger, David - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245624
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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries: A preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2011
-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276728
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834995
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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? Theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2012
ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288473
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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis
van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2007
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276298
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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522516
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Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times
Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2023
Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are commonly used to analyze such data, suffer from a fundamental identification problem. Their conclusions depend on unjustified assumptions about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290270
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Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice: Levels and Differences of Individual and Social Welfare
Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582134
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Happy Times : Measuring Happiness Using Response Times
Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2023
Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are commonly used to analyze such data, suffer from a fundamental identification problem. Their conclusions depend on unjustified assumptions about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358107