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Fiscal pressure of migration & horizontal fiscal inequality : evidence from Indian experience

Chakraborti, Pinaki; Garg, Shatakshi - 2018

This paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states. Econometric estimation suggests that level of vertical federal transfers and its horizontal...

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Fiscal redistribution in Brazil : dynamic microsimulation, 2003–15

Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Siqueira, Rozane Bezerra de; … - 2018

This paper assesses causes and consequences of fiscal redistribution in Brazil. The framework proposed allows evaluating in an integrated manner the impacts of government-sponsored actions in inequality and mean income changes on social welfare, addressing both static and dynamic implications....

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Gender preference at birth : a new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions

Ali, Mehwish Ghulam; De Silva, Ashton; Sinclair, Sarah; … - 2022

children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …

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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 difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by...

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The impact of foreign aid on maternal mortality

Banchani, Emmanuel; Swiss, Liam - 2019

In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals and the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals,...

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Maternal and neonatal services in Ethiopia : measuring and improving quality

Canavan, Maureen E.; Brault, Marie A.; Tatek, Dawit; … - 2017

Problem: Maternal and neonatal mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries, with poor quality of intrapartum care as a barrier to further progress. Approach: We developed and tested a method of measuring the quality of maternal and neonatal care that could be embedded in a larger...

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...

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What might explain today's conflicting narratives on global inequality?

Ravallion, Martin - 2018

How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one often hears? This paper reviews the arguments and evidence. A number of concerns about the underlying data are identified, with biases going in both directions. Conceptual...

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Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique? : accounting for underreported consumption

Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi - 2017

Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated. We address upper tier consumption underreporting by aligning consumption derived from...

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Iran's multi-ethnic mosaic : a 23-year perspective

Fesharaki, Sanaz; Majbouri, Mahdi - 2016

In this study, we embark on measuring inequality in Iran. We compute three measures of group-based inequality (Group-weighted Coefficient of Variation, Group-weighted Gini, and Group-weighted Theil) for the following outcomes: education, assets, income, and expenditure per capita. The groups are...

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