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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942710
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761253
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010715
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Social Protection and Economic Development : Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?
Ravallion, Martin - 2018
Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917602
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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries
Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina - 2021
We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223891
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Health Insurance for Poor Women and Children in the U.S : Lessons from the Past Decade
Gruber, Jonathan - 2021
to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a `natural laboratory' for learning about the effect of public health insurance eligibility on insurance coverage, health utilization, and health outcomes. This paper provides an overview of...
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Supplemental Social Insurance and the Health of the Poor
Taubman, Paul; Sickles, Robin C. - 2021
In 1974 the federal government instituted Supplemental Social Insurance(SSI). The eligible group was the elderly on welfare and disabled individuals.The program distributed extra income and made people eligible for Medicaid in all states except Arizona which did not have Medicaid. We used...
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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty
Anderson, Kym - 2015
impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The analysis finds that the … actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net effect was to increase … global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different from zero. The paper …
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