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Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China

Whalley, John - 2007

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … poverty point to the policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to …

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Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 a Success ... And for the Poor?

Cook, Lisa D. - 2011

The Nigerian banking system was in crisis for much of the 1990's and early 2000's. The reforms of 2005 were ambitious in simultaneously attempting to address safety, soundness, and accessibility. This paper uses published and new survey data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation...

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The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity

Baum, Charles L. - 2011

An increasing number of Americans are obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. In fact, the latest estimates indicate that about 30% of Americans are currently obese, which is roughly a 100% increase from 25 years ago. It is well accepted that weight gain is caused by caloric imbalance,...

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Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Socioeconomic Behavior

Durlauf, Steven N. - 2021

This paper provides a unified framework for interpreting a wide range of interactions models which have appeared in the economics literature. A formalization taken from the statistical mechanics literature is shown to encompass a number of socioeconomic phenomena ranging from out of wedlock...

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Multinomial Choice with Social Interactions

Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N. - 2021

This paper develops a model of individual decisionmaking in the presence of social interactions when the number of available choices is finite. We show how a multinomial logit model framework may be used to model such decisions in a way that permits a tight integration of theory and...

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Causation Among Socioeconomic Time-Series

Michael, Robert T. - 2021

Using annual U. S. time series data from 1950-1974, formal tests of causation are performed among three socioeconomic phenomena: women's labor force participation rates, fertility rates, and divorce rates. Box-Jenkins and other techniques are employed with Granger-Sims type definition of...

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Capabilities and Skills

Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on...

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Fifteen Years on : Household Incomes in South Africa

Leibbrandt, Murray - 2011

This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between 1993 and 2008; the start and the end of the first fifteen years of post-apartheid South Africa. These data show an increase in average per capita real incomes across the distribution....

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Does Health Insurance Coverage Lead to Better Health and Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Rural China

Chen, Yuyu - 2010

Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) has affected child mortality, maternal mortality, and school enrollment of the 6-16 years olds. Our data cover 5.9 million people living in eight low-income rural...

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Revising Commitments : Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices

Giné, Xavier - 2012

The very poor in developing countries often make intertemporal choices that seem at odds with their individual self-interest. There are many possible reasons why. We investigate several of these reasons with a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Malawi involving large stakes. We make two...

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