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This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … mining royalties with local groups that support investments in women and children. Findings imply that mineral mining can …
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When comparing economic well-being using income or expenditures, an equivalence scale is often used to adjust for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not twice as much due to the economies of...
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Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a … national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by …
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mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. We find evidence that producing districts have … higher literacy. However, the positive impacts from mining decrease significantly with administrative and geographic distance …. The inequalizing impact of mining activity, both across and within districts, may explain part of the current social …
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This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
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We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule...
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How large are the economies of scale of living together? And how do partners share their resources? The first question is usually answered by equivalence scales. Traditional estimation and application of equivalence scales assumes equal sharing of income within the household. This paper uses...
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