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Understanding the distributional impacts of increases in fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gayoso de Ervin, Lyliana E.; … - 2023
The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have achieved over the past few decades. Therefore, policy makers must understand the potential distributional impacts of increases in fuel prices to evaluate the implementation of...
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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction
Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988 - 2007
Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - 2010
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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What do unions do in times of economic crisis? : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015
Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance of trade unions for individual workers in the...
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Maternity benefits and marital stability after birth : evidence from the Soviet Baltic republics
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2023
Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...
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Did growth and reforms increase citizens' support for the transition?
Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011
How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...
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Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil
Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - 2021
that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …
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Corruption and mental health: evidence from Vietnam
Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2020
While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between exposure to local corruption and mental health, as measured by depressive symptoms. We use two large...
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Labor supply and consumption smoothing when income shocks are non-insurable
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique nationally representative panel data, the econometric approach accounts for …
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Public sector pay and corruption : measuring bribery from micro data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 2006
employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine's GDP in 2003). -- wage ; wage differentials ; public sector ; corruption ; bribery ; Ukraine …
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