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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS database

Checchi, Daniele; Cupak, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018

. After discussing the main challenges when harmonizing income and consumption microdata from middle-income countries, we …

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Measuring labour earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa

Merrino, Serena - 2020

This paper investigates the validity of household survey data published by Statistics South Africa since 1993 and later integrated into the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS). A series of statistical adjustments are proposed, compared, and applied to primary data with the purpose of...

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Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia

Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; De Brauw, Alan; Hirvonen, Kalle; … - 2022

The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middleincome countries has made it … collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over …-person interviews. In the phone survey, average per capita consumption was 23 per cent lower than in the in-person survey, and the …

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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? A subjective well-being approach

Rojas, Mariano - 2012

A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...

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Excess female mortality in Africa

Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...

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Household bargaining and spending on children: Experimental evidence from Tanzania

Ringdal, Charlotte; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem - 2017

This paper studies whether increasing the wife's bargaining power results in couples allocating more resources to their child, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this are. We conduct a novel between-subject lab experiment in Tanzania, in which we vary the relative bargaining power...

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Wage inequality under inflation-targeting in South Africa

Merrino, Serena - 2020

This paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality through the earnings heterogeneity channel under the inflationtargeting regime implemented in South Africa since 2000. The empirical contribution follows previous studies by...

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What explains the gender gap in top incomes in developing countries? Evidence from Ecuador

Oliva, Nicolás; Jara, H. Xavier; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2021

Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador represents an interesting case as it shares many trends with other countries in the region in terms of women's status in the labour market. While we observe a significant...

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First order dominance analysis: Child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Nanivazo, Malokele - 2014

This paper performs a multidimensional first order dominance (FOD) analysis of child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This methodology allows the ordinal ranking of the 11 provinces of the DRC in terms of their wellbeing based upon the probability of their domination. This...

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Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007 through 2013

Mahrt, Kristi; Nanivazo, Malokele - 2015

growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent …

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