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Normative Analysis with Societal Constraints
Boadway, Robin; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...
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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607471
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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 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/10008853849
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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. - CESifo - 2012
ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580969
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well]being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636596
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Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2014
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories: Socioeconomic Status and Diets
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2014
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877756
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A Behaviour-based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India
Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders; Somanathan, Rohini - CESifo - 2013
Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877856
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Boring Banks and Taxes
Aigner, Rafael; Bierbrauer, Felix - CESifo - 2015
How do taxes in the financial sector affect economic outcomes? We analyze a simple general equilibrium model with financial intermediation. We formalize a trade-off between tax policies that burden the owners of banks and tax policies that burden households. We also study the implications of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257665
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Resource Rents, Democracy and Corruption: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Arezki, Rabah; Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011
We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is significantly stronger in less democratic...
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