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The work investigates the demographic, economic and social determinants of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian househols with their income. For that, a ordered logit model is estimated in order to explain the performance of a subjective indicator of income sufficiency built with basis on...
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The empirical determinants of happiness in Brazil. This paper investigates the role that economic variables play in the … determination of happiness, using reported happiness as a proxy to individual well-being. It uses microdata extracted from the World … significant correlation between happiness and income. Unemployment is also a large source of unhappiness. In most cases, happiness …
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The work investigates the demographic, economic and social determinants of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian househols with their income. For that, a ordered logit model is estimated in order to explain the performance of a subjective indicator of income sufficiency built with basis on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330474
There are several studies showing that household income seems to be an important determinant of children`s health. The objective of this paper is to document the relationship between income and children`s health in Brazil using three data sources and many health indicators. The empirical...
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This paper uses an ordered logit model to investigate the demographic, economic and social determinants of the performance of some partial life quality indicators for Brazilian households, based on the POF 2002-2003 survey on life conditions evaluation. Some indicators have a subjective content,...
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This paper documents and tries to explain the discrepancies between the income distributions reported by the three major household surveys in Brazil: the Census, the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) and the Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF). The main hypothesis is that...
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In 2006, the Bolsa Família Program completed its expansion, expecting to cover 11 million beneficiary families. The objective of this article is to evaluate whether this implied in deterioration in the program's efficient targeting and whether the target of 11 million families in fact covers...
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