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Multidimensional and Fuzzy Measures of Poverty and Inequality at National and Regional Level in Mozambique
Salvucci, Vincenzo; Betti, Gianni; Gagliardi, Francesca - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2012
This study provides a step-by-step account of how fuzzy measures of non-monetary deprivation and also monetary poverty … complete mapping of poverty in Mozambique. Monetary and non-monetary deprivation seem to have very different distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559932
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703024
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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150055
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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558597
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being
Chen, Xi - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) April, pp. 1-10
poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240764
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Does Aid Work for the Poor?
McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; … - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the country level, which has looked mainly at the relationship between aid and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552483
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762394
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Wooden, Mark - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education imporves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the casual pathwasy through which education shapes people's subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902165
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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2012-12), pp. 1143-1169
Using representative income and time-use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyze their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach that relaxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954566