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Social mobility and inequality between groups
Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020
The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not...
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Whose intergenerational mobility? : a new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation
Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2022
Various scholars have estimated levels of intergenerational mobility in OECD countries. Fewer estimates are available for developing countries, where mobility arguably matters more due to starker differences in living standards. This paper presents new estimates of mobility for a developing...
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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India
Weide, Roy van der; Vigh, Melinda - 2018
Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...
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Rural household income mobility in transitional China : evidence from China Household Income Project
Yang, Sui - 2015
Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was much stronger than before. Regarding the...
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Smoothing or strengthening the "Great Gatsby curve"? : the intergenerational impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme
You, Jing; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth … observed individual heterogeneity. Overall, we find that the pension scheme smooths wealth dependence between generations in … the wealth portfolio. Complementary policy interventions, particularly for the poor across generations, would be needed to …
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Gender and distributional preferences : experimental evidence from India
Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect allocations in a modified dictator game where both parties perform a cognitive task and the resulting pie to be split is the sum of both parties' earnings. Our key results are...
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Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes
Girard, Victoire - 2016
Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of mandated political representation of the low castes to...
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Subjective income expectations and risks in rural India
Kumar, Alok - 2017
This paper analyses the pattern and determinants of income risk and expectation in rural India. It uses unique primary survey data eliciting subjective income distribution from households in twelve villages in Bihar. It finds that expected future income is significantly and positively associated...
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Aid and governance in vulnerable states : Bangladesh and Pakistan since 1971
Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2013
Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in … to Pakistan had very negative effects on its political and economic evolution. In contrast in Bangladesh the less …
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Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in Bangladesh
Raihan, Selim; Khan, Sunera Saba - 2020
The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of … overwhelmingly salient component of Bangladesh's export composition, this is due primarily to the rapid expansion of the ready … Bangladesh economy, aiming to tackle inequality and promote inclusive growth. …
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