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Economic approach to intergenerational mobility : measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries
Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2019
coefficient. In contrast, intergenerational correlation and intergenerational rank correlation are much more robust to such data …-rank regression. Sibling correlation is a broader measure of mobility, particularly useful with limited data. Estimating causal … causal effects of policies on intergenerational regression coefficient, intergenerational correlation, and intergenerational …
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A new inequality estimate for urban India? : using house prices to estimate inequality in Mumbai
Rongen, Gerton - 2018
This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by combining survey data with house price data. However,...
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Inequality and institutional outcomes in Viet Nam : a combined principal components and clustering analysis
Hoang, Thu K.; Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Dang Thi … - 2024
Better understanding of inequality, including its relationship to governance and other key outcomes, is relevant both to academic researchers and to policy-makers. Nevertheless, efforts to establish causal relationships empirically remain hampered by the quality and availability of data,...
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Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling : imputing employment income in Tanzania and Zambia
McLennan, David; Noble, Michael; Wright, Gemma; Barnes, … - 2021
The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or implausible values. The four imputation methods are also applied...
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Simulating personal income tax in South Africa using administrative data and survey data : a comparison of PITMOD and SAMOD for tax year 2018
Steyn, Wynnona; Sithole, Alexius; Ngobeni, Winile; … - 2021
In this paper we explore South Africa's personal income tax system using two microsimulation models. The first, SAMOD, simulates personal income tax and social benefits using a dataset derived from the nationally representative National Income Dynamics Study survey. The second, PITMOD, simulates...
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Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID19 and state-led remedial measures in South Africa
Barnes, Helen; Espi-Sanchis, Gabriel; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2021
This paper explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect people's earned incomes just before the pandemic (March...
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Resource rents in the diamond industry 2014-19 : rents, issues, methods, and data availability
Löf, Anton; Löf, Olof; Ericsson, Magnus - 2021
The focus of this study is rent in the diamond industry. Based on extensive datasets and a discussion of all relevant costs, we present resource rent statistics from the diamond industry in key producer countries in emerging economies such as Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
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The effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives : a microsimulation analysis on selected African countries
Shahir, Adnan Abdulaziz; Figari, Francesco - 2021
Although the effect of fiscal drag is well studied in the industrialized world, empirical evidence from developing economies remains limited. Against this backdrop, this study aims to explore the effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives. To this end, the study employs...
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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 multiple imputation of coarsened data on estimates on the working poor in South Africa
Vermaak, Claire - 2010
South African household surveys typically contain coarsened earnings data, which consist of a mixture of missing earnings values, point responses and interval-censored responses. This paper uses sequential regression multivariate imputation to impute missing and interval-censored values in the...
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