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Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence from Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran - 2012

Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth...

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Why are the Critics so Convinced that Globalization is Bad for the Poor?

Aisbett, Emma - 2014

dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …

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Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2010

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence Using Nutrition Data for Africa

Brown, Caitlin - 2017

Antipoverty policies assume that targeting poor households suffices in reaching poor individuals. We question this assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely across the household wealth and consumption...

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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Globalization and Poverty

Harrison, Ann E. - 2010

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

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Big Data and Big Cities : The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015

in New York City, suggesting that similar image data can be used to map wealth and poverty in previously unmeasured areas …

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Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2014

Individuals that consume different baskets of goods are differentially affected by relative price changes caused by international trade. We develop a methodology to measure the unequal gains from trade across consumers within countries. The approach requires data on aggregate expenditures and...

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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico

Atkin, David - 2015

The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...

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Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints : Why Do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2015

The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for educational attainment and lifetime earnings. After providing...

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