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Do cash transfers improve birth outcomes? : evidence from matched vital statistics, social security and program data
Amarante, Verónica; Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412046
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298903
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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …
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Is poverty the main cause of child work in urban Brazil?
Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Mendonça, Rosane Silva Pinto de; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996674
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Poverty in Brazil in the 80s
Ramos, Lauro R. A. - 2015
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Poverty studies in Brazil : a review
Rocha, Sônia - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996962
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236841
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Minimum wages and poverty
Addison, John T. - 1998
employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428180
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Helping farmers escape the poverty trap through sustainable livelihoods
Alta, Aditya; Zahra, Amalina Az; Fauzi, Azizah Nazzala - 2023
relatively large number of Indonesians. Because of low productivity, poverty has become the main social issue for farmers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338699
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Anatomy of a health scare : education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK
Anderberg, Dan (contributor); Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2009
One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short period, some publicized research suggested that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868137