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FDI and Inequality in Vietnam : An Approach with Census Data

McLaren, John - 2016

We investigate the effects of inward FDI on income distribution and absolute living standards in Vietnam using census … data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments in each of Vietnam's provinces for each … of FDI on household welfare is more difficult than measuring the effect of trade policy, and may pose a difficulty for …

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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries

Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how the pandemic is likely to have differential consequences...

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Covid-19 Infection Externalities : Trading Off Lives vs. Livelihoods

Bethune, Zachary A. - 2020

We analyze the externalities that arise when social and economic interactions transmit infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Individually rational agents do not internalize that they impose infection externalities upon others when the disease is transmitted. In an SIR model calibrated to capture...

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey - 2008

The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2007

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...

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The Well-being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

In this paper we build on our earlier work on underemployment using data from the UK. In particular, we explore their well-being based on hours preferences rather than on involuntary part-time work used in the prior literature. We make use of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life...

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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid pandemic on most measures and on four bordering countries to Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022. However, the movements are not large and are not apparent everywhere....

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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...

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The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

Bell, David - 2006

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...

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Changes in Household Living Arrangements 1950-76

Michael, Robert T. - 1980

The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income...

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