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Ravallion, Martin - 2015

It is sometimes argued that poorer people choose to work less, implying less welfare inequality than suggested by observed incomes. Social policies have also acknowledged that efforts differ, and that people respond to incentives. Prevailing measures of inequality (in outcomes or opportunities)...

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Fleshing Out the Olive? On Income Polarization in China

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … past economic progress, including poverty reduction. The paper does not find robust time-series evidence of polarizing …

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Missing Top Income Recipients

Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Low response rates among rich households are thought to be a serious problem in many applications using household surveys. The paper discusses the various ways the problem can be dealt with, and makes some recommendations for practice, including in developing countries. Under certain conditions,...

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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little explanatory power for our new series of inequality...

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Macroeconomic Misery by Levels of Income in America

Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

matters at all levels and proportionately more for the poorest, though only via the unemployment rate. Recessions are poverty …

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Inequality and the Coronavirus : Socioeconomic Covariates of Behavioral Responses and Viral Outcomes Across US Counties

Brown, Caitlin S. - 2020

, augmenting epidemiological and health covariates with within-county median incomes, poverty and income inequality, and age and … poverty and inequality tend to increase the infection rate, but these effects are largely accountable to their correlation …

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Global Inequality when Unequal Countries Create Unequal People

Ravallion, Martin - 2017

Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to economic welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions that assumption on theoretical and empirical grounds and finds that prominent stylized facts about global inequality are...

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Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic

Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

to overall mobility reductions. By contrast, higher within-county inequality and/or poverty measures came with …

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Design of a Multi-Stage Stratified Sample for Poverty and Welfare Monitoring with Multiple Objectives : A Bangladesh Case Study

Ahmed, Faizuddin - 2017

Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …

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Revisiting the Poverty Trend in Rwanda : 2010/11 to 2013/14

Fatima, Freeha - 2018

registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper?s conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …

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