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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 …

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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the …

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The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare : A "Rapid Response" Methodology

Friedman, Jed - 2001

Analyzing the distributional impacts of economic crises is important and, unfortunately, an ever more pressing need. If policymakers are to intervene to help those most adversely impacted, then policymakers need to identify those who have been most harmed and the magnitude of that harm....

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Health, Inequality, and Economic Development

Deaton, Angus - 2001

I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of mechanisms, including nonlinear income effects, credit restrictions, nutritional traps, public goods provision, and relative deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of...

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Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is...

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The Income and Tax Share of Very High Income Households, 1960-1995

Feenberg, Daniel R. - 2000

This paper presents new information on the fraction of adjusted gross income, and of wages and salaries, that is reported by taxpayers in the top one half of one percent of the income distribution. This corresponds to roughly five hundred thousand households in the late 1990s. This paper relies...

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The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes : A Non-Parametric Analysis

Neumark, David - 1998

times the poverty level …

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility, Inequality, and Growth

Owen, Ann L. - 1997

We examine a model in which per capita income, inequality, intergenerational mobility, and returns to education are all determined endogenously. Individuals earn wages depending on their ability, which is a random variable. They purchase an education with transfers received from their parents,...

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Changes in the Structure of Family Income Inequality in the United States and Other Industrial Nationa During the 1980s

Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1994

We examine the detailed structure of family income inequality in the United States, Canada, and Australia at various points during the 1980s. In each of these countries we find that income inequality increased among married couple families and that the increases are closely associated with...

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