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crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita … percent below that of non-defaulting peers after a decade. Based on the trajectory of the health, nutrition, and poverty …
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constant correction to survey-derived inequality estimates. Underreporting of income by the bottom 50% of the world income … distribution has become particularly important in recent decades. We reconfirm the findings of the literature that global poverty … and inequality have declined dramatically between 1980 and 2019. Finally, we find that within-country inequality is …
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We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...
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that both Black and Hispanic households made remarkable progress in terms of mean and median retirement income, poverty … projected poverty rate rising, and the projected replacement rate falling, though expected mean retirement income does rise …. Hispanics also experienced a setback in mean retirement income but continued progress in replacement rates and reducing poverty …
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more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …
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Chapter 6 from the forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2022 looks at human capital in greater detail, based on the latest human capital estimates from the Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR) project. In the chapter, which is repeated here, the growth of human capital and several of its constituent...
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We study the association between infectious disease prevalence and income inequality. We hypothesize that random social … elevated levels of income inequality have higher rates of pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) incidence per capita. We analyzed … elevated levels of income inequality were positively associated with tuberculosis prevalence. All else equal, countries with …
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Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 countries, the 50 states of the United States and the District of Colombia on eight wellbeing measures. These are four positive affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment,...
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We augment Henderson, Storeygard, and Weil (2012)'s two-signal model of true income growth with a third signal to overcome its underidentification problem. The additional moment conditions from the third signal help fully identify all model parameters without ad-hoc calibrations of the GDP's...
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This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender and various determinants. It is a preliminary version of a forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2023 (UNESCO and Urban Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five...
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