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Does job polarization explain the rise in earnings inequality? : evidence from Europe
Bussolo, Maurizio; Torre, Iván; Winkler, Hernan - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002427
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How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty?
Lakner, Christoph; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Negre, Mario; … - 2019
to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051829
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241207
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Housing, imputed rent, and households’ welfare
Ceriani, Lidia; Olivieri, Sergio; Ranzani, Marco - 2019
suggests it is context and method specific. Although changes in poverty and inequality are always statistically significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113819
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Equivalent years of schooling : a metric to communicate learning gains in concrete terms
Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei - 2019
In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education interventions in developing countries. The impact magnitudes are often reported in terms of "standard deviations," making them difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007992
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Test score gap robustness to scaling : the scale transformation command
Chang, Andres Yi - 2019
Social scientists frequently rely on the cardinal comparability of test scores to assess achievement gaps between population subgroups and their evolution over time. This approach has been criticized due to the ordinal nature of test scores and the sensibility of results to order-preserving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114081
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The changing pattern of returns to education : what impact will this have on inequality?
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2019
The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051818
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The redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger
Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051946
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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy
Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019
This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for … gains and the inequality costs of trade liberalization are quantified and the trade-offs between them are assessed using an … inequality costs (gains), which arise because trade tends to exacerbate income inequality: 45 countries face a trade-off, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022290
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Distributional effects of competition : a simulation approach
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2019
Understanding the economic and social effects of the recent global trends of rising market concentration and market power has become a policy priority, particularly in developing countries where markets are often more concentrated. In this context, since the poor are typically the most affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022355