Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a …Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed …

-called superstar cities in which housing is so inelastically supplied that it becomes unaffordable, as higher-income families outbid … implications for growth and income distribution. There is not a great deal of data available to examine trends in Accra, so our … equations allows us to infer Accra's housing supply elasticity. Taken together, our approaches suggest that lower-income …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …

, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market share, Madagascar has been able to … contributed to raise purchase prices and the cash income of vanilla farmers. But the effect on farmers' consumption remains small … because a large part of it is self-consumed. The effect on aggregate measures of poverty and inequality is even smaller, even …

This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, component representing measurement … error or transitory income shocks and an Autoregressive (AR(1)) component representing persistent changes in income. The …