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The Luxembourg Income Study
Ravallion, Martin - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878110
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The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An overview
Lustig, Nora; Amábile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … at government costs, they reduce inequality in all countries by considerably more than cash transfers, reflecting their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878122
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Influence functions for distributional statistics
Essama-Nssah, B.; Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
central tendency, inequality and poverty and also measures of the degree of pro-poorness of a shock- or policy-induced change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878137
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Does Immigration Induce "Native Flight" from Public Schools into Private Schools?
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.  The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.  For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928894
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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren.  We also examine whether "white flight" is from all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929810
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Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School Attendance
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Using 1990 Census microdata, we explore ethnic, racial and immigrant differences in private school attendance.  We find high rates of private school attendance among white natives, white immigrants, and Asian natives.  In contrast, we find low private school rates among black and Hispanic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929812
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Rising food prices and household welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643263
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ). A diagnostic framework to assess governments’ fiscal policies. Handbook
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249979
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Inequality and poverty under Latin America’s new left regimes
McLeod, Darryl; Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … Venezuela started the 1990-2008 sample window with lower levels of inequality, so to some extent recent reductions in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249980