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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149043
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Perceived income inequality and subjective social status in Europe
Hajdu, Gábor - 2021
This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income inequality is, the lower the individual's perception...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616141
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Wealth inequality and economic growth : evidence from the world inequality database
Steenbrink, Rachel; Skali, Ahmed - 2024
Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this relationship has rarely been studied empirically, with a few exceptions covering a very restricted country sample or short timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553772
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Rethinking the inequality-growth nexus : short-term gains and long-term challenges
Duong, Khanh; Nguyen Phuc Van - 2023
This study reexamines the relationship between economic growth and inequality, challenging the conventional view that regards inequality solely as an impediment to development. While recognizing the essential role of economic growth in development plans, our analysis extends beyond this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445740
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2017
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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Does redistribution hurt growth? : an empirical assessment of the redistribution-growth relationship in the European Union
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2024
This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting for 25 EU countries over the period 2007-2019, we show that market income inequality is associated with higher growth in the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution...
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
The key challenge in making distributional comparisons with ordinal data is the lack of commensurability of the distances between the ordered categories. This chapter provides a critical review of the most recent theoretical developments addressing this challenge and providing methods for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty : a brief assessment of the literature
Ceriani, Lidia; Hlásny, Vladimír; Verme, Paolo - 2021
The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of … non-positive incomes, and explains how non-positive incomes and alternative correction methods impact the measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604690
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Which model for poverty predictions?
Verme, Paolo - 2020
OLS models are the predominant choice for poverty predictions in a variety of contexts such as proxy-means tests, poverty mapping or cross-survey imputations. This paper compares the performance of econometric and machine learning models in predicting poverty using alternative objective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159707
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Predicting poverty with missing incomes
Verme, Paolo - 2023
Poverty prediction models are used by economists to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations such as poverty mapping, or vulnerability analyses. Based on the models used by this literature, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276037