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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999
A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...
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Health and inequality
O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Van Ourti, Tom - 2013
distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …
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Who is at the top? : wealth mobility over the life cycle
Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2012
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Advance information and consumption insurance : evidence from panel data
Pedroni, Marcelo; Singh, Swapnil; Stoltenberg, Christian - 2022 - Preliminary, April 15, 2022
We investigate whether US households possess advance information about their future income and what this means for consumption insurance. Based on insights from a theoretical model, we propose a new test to detect advance information, which requires only panel data on consumption and income....
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Explaining the wealth holdings of different cohorts : productivity growth and social security
Kapteyn, Arie; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria - 1999
It is well-known that individuals born in different periods of time (cohorts)exhibit different wealth accumulation paths. While previous studies have usedcohort dummies to proxy for this fact, research in this area suffers from aserious identification problem, i.e., how to disentangle age, time,...
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Welfare in village and towns : micro-measurement of poverty and inequality
Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Jean Olson; Lanjouw, Peter - 2000
, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …
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Home improvement, wealth inequality, and the energy-efficiency paradox
Dröes, Martijn I.; Straten, Yasmine van der - 2024
-income households to own energy-efficient homes reduces wealth inequality and poverty, it leaves 83% of the potential CO2 benefits …
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Job security and liquid wealth
Figueiredo, Ana; Marie, Olivier; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2023
We study changes in job security after displacement and exploit eligibility rules for lump-sum payments in the Netherlands to investigate the role of liquid wealth. Within five years of job loss, the likelihood of being a permanent worker remains 12% lower for displaced workers. Those eligible...
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Pension fund restoration policy in general equilibrium
Kastelein, Pim B.; Romp, Ward E. - 2018 - Revision: June 28, 2018
When the financial positions of pension funds worsen, regulations prescribe that pension funds reduce the gap between their assets (invested contributions) and their liabilities (accumulated pension promises). This paper quantifies the business cycle effects and distributional implications of...
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Risk aversion and the subjective time discount rate : a joint approach
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Booij, Adam S. - 2003
In this paper we analyze a large sample of individual responses to six lottery questions. Wederive a simultaneous estimate of risk aversion ? and the time preference discount rate ? perindividual. This can be done because the consumption of a large prize is smoothed over a largertime period. It...
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