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Environment and development : penalized non-parametric inference of global trends in deforestation, pollution and carbon

Andrée, Bo Pieter Johannes; Spencer, Phoebe; Chamorro, … - 2019

This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new analysis tools and data. The paper discusses inference and interpretation in a machine learning framework. The results suggest that production gradually favors conserving the...

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Income distribution, international integration and sustained poverty reduction

Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - 2020

What is the pathway to development in a world with less international integration? This paper answers this question within a model that emphasizes the role of demand-side constraints on national development, which is identified with sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is...

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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America

Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019

This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … for the process of reduction in inequality, but do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence using …

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A socioeconomic disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

D'Souza, Ritika; Gatti, Roberta; Kraay, Aart - 2019

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …

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Poverty convergence in a time of stagnation : a municipal-level perspective from Mexico (1992–2014)

López-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; … - 2019

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the...

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Inequality, poverty and the intra-household allocation of consumption in Senegal

De Vreyer, Philippe; Lambert, Sylvie - 2020

. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … various effects. In total, two opposing effects, one on mean and one on inequality, compensate each other in terms of the … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …

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Taxing tobacco in Georgia : welfare and distributional gains of smoking cessation

Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan; González Icaza, María Fernanda - 2020

This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...

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The distributive impact of taxes and expenditures in Colombia

Núñez Méndez, Jairo; Olivieri, Sergio; Parra, Julieth; … - 2020

speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …

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What do 50 years of census records and household survey data tell us about human opportunities and welfare in Latin America?

Calvo-Gonzalez, Oscar; Caruso, Germán; Castañeda … - 2020

To comprehend how development really happens, it is necessary to understand the evolution of its drivers and their relationship with individuals' income. This paper analyzes the expansion of access to education and basic services in Latin America and its association with the evolution of incomes...

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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements

Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020

Although household well-being is anchored in long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. This paper develops a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization that...

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