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Growth Elasticities of Poverty Reduction
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to …
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The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality
Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Hémous, David; Hicks, Jeffrey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a … search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few … provides non-divisible services to consumers, with physicians our prime example. Examining local income inequality across U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322754
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464963
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Long-term consequences of vietnam-era conscription : schooling, experience, and earnings
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2007
This paper uses the 2000 Census 1-in-6 sample to look at the long-term impact of Vietnam-era military service. Instrumental Variables estimates using draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings losses close to zero in 2000, in contrast with earlier results showing substantial earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465239
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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability
Conley, Dalton - 2011
service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461986
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Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces : Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo
Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Blumenstock, Joshua; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Do non-traditional digital trace data and traditional survey data yield similar estimates of the impact of a cash transfer program? In a randomized controlled trial of Togo's COVID-19 Novissi program, endline survey data indicate positive treatment effects on beneficiary food security, mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421176
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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250138
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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning
Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
income, but also education and health. However, the low country-level resolution of the global HDI data released by the Human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247965
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Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System : Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data
Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
exceed 60% for Black, American Indian, and low-income children. While broader definitions reach a more expansive population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287362
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362025