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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996
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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
Beck, Thorsten - 2005
, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467461
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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467709
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Big bad banks? : the impact of u.s. branch deregulation on income distribution
Beck, Thorsten - 2007
"Policymakers and economists disagree about the impact of bank regulations on the distribution of income. Exploiting cross-state and cross-time variation, we test whether liberalizing restrictions on intra-state branching in the United States intensified, ameliorated, or had no effect on income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521579
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Big Bad Banks? The Impact of U.S. Branch Deregulation on Income Distribution
Beck, Thorsten - 2007
By studying intrastate branch banking reform in the United States, this paper provides evidence that financial markets substantively influence the distribution of income. From the 1970s through the 1990s, most states removed restrictions on intrastate branching, which intensified bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465351
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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172161
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2006
peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466340
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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2015
This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457827
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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts : A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
Ambler, Kate - 2014
We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We … weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from … other remittance channels, or to send remittances on behalf of other migrants. These findings are consistent with naïveté on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458143
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Channeling Remittances to Education : A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
Ambler, Kate - 2014
We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458404