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Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a mar- ket economy, where earning … differentials re ect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality …-of-Africa migration. Exploring the roots of inequality within the US population, we find supporting evidence for our hypothesis: variation …
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growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typicalsurvey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality. Further …
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-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …
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and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …
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A frequent finding in the empirical literature on cost-benefit analysis of traffic safety measures is that valuations of public goods are lower than valuations of private goods, contrary to theory predictions. This study elicits the willingness to pay for publicly and privately provided safety...
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Livelihood diversification is attracting considerable interest as a tool to cope with economic shocks and resist vulnerability. This paper investigates the evolution of livelihood diversification in Egypt with a particular focus on wealth and urban-rural divides. Using Egypt Labor Market Panel...
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Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have investigated the contributions of these two factors separately. This paper considers them...
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We examined the impact of the depreciation of the Australian dollar (AU$) during 2013-2015 on the expenditure of households with foreign-born members (HFBMs) in Australia. Employing the difference-in-differences method and 2013-2015 Nielson Homescan Panel Survey data, we found that HFBMs spent...
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