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Health shocks and the intergenerational transmission of inequality : evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2015
Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462535
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Inequality and the generational economy : race-disaggregated National Transfer Accounts for South Africa, 2015
Oosthuizen, Morné - 2019
Differences in the economic lifecycle between countries at different levels of development suggest that there may be differences between sub-populations within countries, particularly where the sub-populations have different levels of income. Given stark inequalities by race in South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987087
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The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on household work decisions in Ghana
Ekobor-Ackah Mochiah, Eric; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2014
A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households' supply of labour for agriculture, paid employment, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406840
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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up : a tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMOD
Kampamba, Remmy; Pellerano, Luca; Banda, Charles; … - 2019
This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country's Seventh National Development Plan (2017-21). It further assesses the domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986983
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124448
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Winning or buying hearts and minds? : cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan
Ghorpade, Yashodhan; Justino, Patricia - 2019
This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects. The main results show evidence of improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129354
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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? : intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011
-land assets and the education and occupation of parents (especially the mother) and their choices about children's schooling are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311712
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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and social network of family from parents by children; and second, capital … intergenerational linkages are important in Ghana; specifically, the results show a positive significant influence of parents … occupations such as services and sales. The findings highlight the fact that children of parents employed in high-paying and …
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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
constructed a pooling sample consisting of 9,445 matching pairs of children and their parents. The paper estimates relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816329
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Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility? : evidence from Cameroon
Fontep, Rose; Sen, Kunal - 2020
which both daughters and sons are born to the same parents, or in which children and parents are living in the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268204