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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India : an experimental investigation

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to...

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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017

. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and Expenditure Survey as it contains exclusive goods, i.e. goods consumed by …

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Concepts of social mobility

Fields, Gary S. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019

This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well...

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The dynamics of spatial and local inequalities in India

Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Garcés Urzainqui, David - 2018

Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or districts, typically the smallest geographical units for which data are representative in national surveys. We introduce a procedure to calculate inequality between and within...

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Information, identification, or neither? : experimental evidence on role models in Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2018

of a role models intervention that aims to inspire ethnic minority households to start businesses and diversify income … compliance, the role model intervention did not impact on income, livelihoods, or other welfare outcomes. This points to the …

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Changes in labour market conditions and policies : their impact on wage inequality during the last decade

Keifman, Saúl N.; Maurizio, Roxana - 2012

Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of the workings of the labour market is necessary to...

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The (evolving) role of agriculture in poverty reduction : an empirical perspective

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Demery, Lionel; Kuhl, Jesper - 2010

headcount poverty in low-income and resource-rich countries (including those in sub-Saharan Africa), at least when societies are …

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Recovery with distress : unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh

Rahman, Hussain Zillur; Rahman, Atiya; Faruk, Md. Saiful; … - 2022

The social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multidimensional. While anecdotal evidence of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response has required real-time, researched data disaggregated...

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Income distribution in Uganda based on tax registers : what do top incomes say?

Jäntti, Markus; Nalukwago, Milly Isingoma; Waiswa, Ronald - 2022

We use income data from tax registers at the Uganda Revenue Authority from 2011 to 2017 to estimate top income … inequality, focusing on the very top-the top 1, 0.1, and 0.01 per cent of the income distribution. The focus on the extreme top … is facilitated by access to population data on formal sector income. The microdata from tax registries, submitted monthly …

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