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Social insurance against a short life : ante-mortem versus post-mortem policies

Ponthiere, Gregory - 2023

Welfare States do not insure citizens against the risk of premature death, i.e., the risk of having a short life. Using a dynamic OLG model with risky lifetime, this paper compares two insurance devices reducing well-being volatility due to the risk of early death: (i) an ante-mortem age-based...

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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

) affordability and thermal comfort. Depending on which fuel deprivation indicator is used, we find heterogeneous associations between …

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Inequality and poverty in Greece : changes in times of crisis

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017

effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007-2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

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Trends and drivers of inequality : recent evidence from Vietnam

Trang Huyen Dang; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tung Duc Phung - 2022

This study provides evidence on the trends and drivers of inequality in Vietnam using Vietnam Household Living Standard … Surveys. We find that inequality, regardless of the choice of welfare indicators and inequality measurements, has been stable … in Vietnam. Inequality in income or expenditure is remarkably lower than inequality in assets. In 2016, the Gini …

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Financial stress and Indigenous Australians

Breunig, Robert; Hasan, Syed; Hunter, Boyd H. - 2018

We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models for the determinants of financial stress for Indigenous and non-Indigenous households and show the importance of separately considering Indigenous disadvantage. We use these...

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Decomposing poverty in hard times : Greece 2007-2016

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2020

The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the effect of the crisis on the population shares, the...

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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; Gonzalez, Rolando; Dang, … - 2019

This paper investigates a women’s self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...

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Trends in subjective income poverty rates in the European Union

Želinský, Tomáš; Mysíková, Martina; Garner, … - 2021

When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in the literature, though it remains a conceptually appealing way to define poverty. The primary goal of...

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Poor vs non-poor households in Uruguay : welfare differences from food price changes

Echeverría, Lucía; Molina, José Alberto - 2021

Evidence suggests that household responses to price and income changes are significantly sensitive across income levels and rural-urban location. In this paper, we focus on poor households vs. non-poor households using two definitions of poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the...

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