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Feeling richer and happier? : self-perceived economic welfare and life satisfaction : evidence of "Easterlin paradox" from Russian longitudinal data

Jin, Olivia S.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020

suggests the importance of studying subjective economic welfare, with possible implications on income inequality. Our findings … suggest that a society with high income inequality, in which a small proportion of the population earns a large proportion of …

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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data

Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018

To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS)...

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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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Trends in subjective income poverty rates in theEuropean Union

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

When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on theprevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a conceptwhich has been largely neglected in literature, yet remains a conceptually appeal-ing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this study...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626746

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

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

This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...

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Europe's migration experience and its effects on economic inequality

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2021

between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …

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