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Verme, Paolo - 2017

such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens, the author tests the consistency of income … inequality in predicting life satisfaction. The analysis finds that income inequality has a negative and significant effect on … life satisfaction. This result is robust to changes in regressors and estimation choices and also persists across different …

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Perceptions of Distributive Justice in Latin America During a Period of Falling Inequality

Reyes, German Jeremias - 2017

modest, decrease in the share of the population that believes income distribution is unfair. The fall in the perception of …

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Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted? Evidence for Three Developing Countries

Ravallion, Martin - 2017

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents'scales. Little is known about this problem. This study uses specially-designed surveys in three countries,...

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Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines : Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses

Walsh, Brian James - 2019

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...

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I Perceive Therefore I Demand : The Formation of Inequality Perceptions and Demand for Redistribution

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2019

This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality....

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The Law's Majestic Equality? The Distributive Impact of Litigating Social and Economic Rights

Brinks, Daniel M. - 2017

Optimism about the use of laws, constitutions, and rights to achieve social change has never been higher among practitioners. But the academic literature is skeptical that courts can direct resources toward the poor. This paper develops a nuanced account in which not all courts are the same....

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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Child Malnutrition in the Developing World

Wagstaff, Adam - 2017

Among the conclusions the authors reach about malnutrition rates, among different economic groups: 1) inequalities in malnutrition almost disfavor the poor; 2) it's not just that the poor have higher rates of malnutrition. The rate of malnutrition declines continuously with rising living...

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Inequality in China : An Overview

Knight, John B. - 2017

This paper provides an overview of research on income inequality in China over the period of economic reform. It presents the results of two main sources of evidence on income inequality and, assisted by various decompositions, explains the reasons income inequality has increased rapidly and the...

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Feeling Poor, Feeling Rich, or Feeling Middle-Class : An Empirical Investigation

Bussolo, Maurizio; Lebrand, Mathilde Sylvie Maria; … - 2020

Based on their objective economic situation and comparing with their peers, individuals form perceptions of their economic position in a society. Data from the three waves of the Life in Transition surveys of European countries show that these perceptions systematically deviate from the rankings...

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The Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2030 and the Potential from Rapid, Inclusive, and Climate-Informed Development

Rozenberg, Julie - 2017

The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and socioeconomic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development in the absence of climate change in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty...

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