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Subjective well-being and relative poverty in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012

, matters for well-being: it enters with a positive and significant coefficient in the well-being function. -- poverty ; well …

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Can women's self-help groups contribute to sustainable development? : evidence of capability changes from Northern India

Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020

the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …

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You'll never walk alone : unemployment, social networks and leisure activities

Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2023

We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction measures. Using the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch population, we estimate the effects by inverse propensity score weighting in a...

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Identifying population groups at high risk of social exclusion : evidence from the ECHP

Tsakloglou, Panos O.; Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2001

In recent years in the public discourse of many European countries there has been a shift in emphasis from "poverty" to …

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Ageing, health, loneliness and wellbeing

Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; Piracha, Matloob; … - 2020

Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...

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Physical isolation and loneliness : evidence from COVID lockdowns in Australia

Kong, Nancy; Lam, Jack - 2022

Using mandatory stay-at-home orders in Australia as a natural experiment and data from a long-running panel study, this paper investigates the causal link between physical isolation and loneliness. We exploit variations in the number of lockdown days in 2020 the respondent had experienced up...

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Tackling social exclusion : evidence from Chile

Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study

D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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The development of multidimensional poverty in Germany 1985 - 2007

Busch, Christopher; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

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Is man doomed to progress?

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2006

This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of...

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