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Roads to equality: wealth distribution dynamics with public-private capital complementarity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995
inequality of opportunity, as well as to greater output. This provides an additional rationale for an active role for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746233
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Diabetes and depression comorbidity and socio-economic status in low and middle income countries (LMICs): a mapping of the evidence
Leone, Tiziana; Coast, Ernestina; Narayanan, Shilpa; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Non-communicable diseases account for more than 50% of deaths in adults aged 15–59 years in most low income countries. Depression and diabetes carry an enormous public health burden, making the identification of risk factors for these disorders an important strategy. While socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745662
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Mixed dominance: a new criterion for poverty analysis
Howes, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1993
The second-order stochastic dominance criterion for inequality analysis introduced by Atkinson (1970) covers nearly all … well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744956
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Argentina's crises and the poor, 1995-2002
Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745880
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Risk-adjusted poverty in Argentina: measurement and determinants
Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression analysis suggests that many household characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746011
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Income fluctuation, poverty and well-being over time: theory and application to Argentina
Cruces, Guillermo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel data has been exploited in theoretical analysis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746722
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126047
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Perceptions of risk : an experimental approach using internet questionnaires
Cowell, Frank; Cruces, Guillermo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744849
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Hooray for GDP!
Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Should raising the growth rate of GDP per capita be a policy goal of governments in general, and of the British government in particular? Many people would say no, for the following reasons: 1) GDP is hopelessly flawed as a measure of welfare; 2) Growing GDP is pointless since most people don’t...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744986
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Decomposing inequality in Greece: results and policy implications
Papatheodorou, Christos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745031