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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...
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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Pro-Poor Growth and the Lognormal Distribution
Lambert, Peter J. - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 3-4, pp. 88-99
) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …
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Measuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth Within an Elasticity Framework
Essama-Nssah, B.; Lambert, Peter J. - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - 2006
Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …
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Economic well-being in Italy: The role of income insecurity and intergenerational inequality
Berloffa, Gabriella; Modena, Francesca - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 3, pp. 751-765
This paper argues that the evaluation of a society's economic well-being should account for the employment risk associated with being a temporary worker and for the relative income loss of young generations with respect to older ones. We show that the inclusion of new measures of both these...
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A review of the literature on well-being in Italy: A human development perspective
Burchi, Francesco; Gnesi, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma 3 - 2013
In the recent years a large literature on indicators of well-being and quality of life has proliferated, all departing from a strict economic view of these phenomena. While all these indicators sign an important step for the recognition of well-being as a multidimensional phenomenon, they are...
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Quality of Life And Human Isolation: The Case of Rural Area of Puglia
Contò, Francesco; Fiore, Mariantonietta; Sala, … - In: Romanian Journal of Regional Science 6 (2012) 2, pp. 31-52
The present research explores the socio-economic problems arising in a typical peripheral rural area - the Wide Area of Daunian Mountains (WADM)- in Southern Italy in order to analyse the concept of ‘well being’ through the analysis of the ‘quality of life’. For these purposes, we will...
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MEASURING HYPOTHETICAL GRANDPARENTS PREFERENCES FOR EQUALITY AND RELATIVE STANDINGS
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Carlsson, Fredrik; Daruvala, Dinky - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001
Individuals’ aversion to risk and inequality, and their concern for relative standing, are measured through experimental choices between hypothetical societies. It is found that on average individuals are both fairly inequality-averse and have a strong concern for relative income. The results...
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Misery Loves Company: Exogenous shocks in retirement expectations and social comparison effects on subjective well-being
Montizaan, Raymond M.; Vendrik, Maarten C.M. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 1-26
This study investigates the effects of social comparison accompanying a substantial reform of the Dutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform implies that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950, or later face a considerable reduction in...
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Axiomatic measurement of multidimensional well-being inequality: Some distributional questions
Croci Angelini, Elisabetta; Michelangeli, Alessandra - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 5, pp. 548-557
This paper focuses on two main issues which are crucial for improving on the analysis of multidimensional inequality: the effect of both the dispersion of well-being attributes across individuals and the interaction among attributes on the measurement of multidimensional well-being. To approach...
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