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Local Inequality and Project Choice : Theory and Evidence from Ecuador

Araujo, M. Caridad - 2016

This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model...

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The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Inequality, 1981-2004

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2016

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over...

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The Slippery Slope : Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, 1976-96

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2016

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Can the Distributional Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks Be Predicted? A Comparison of the Performance of Macro-Micro Models with Historical Data for Brazil

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2016

set of linkage aggregate variables to a microeconomic model of household incomes. The authors use this framework to … predict the employment and distributional consequences of the 1999 Brazilian currency crisis, based on 1998 household survey … data. They then test the predictive performance of the model by comparing its simulated results with the actual household …

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Calm after the Storms : Income Distribution in Chile, 1987 94

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2016

With the profound political and economic changes of the 1970s and 1980s behind it, and regardless of its trade patterns, Chile's income distribution is, for the moment, calm. Education may be the most important variable affecting the structure of, and changes in, inequality in Chile. After...

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Growing Apart : Inequality and Poverty Trends in Brazil in the 1980s

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2014

-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and …

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Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008

Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth....

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Labor market experience and falling earnings inequality in Brazil : 1995-2012

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; … - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 36 (2022) 1, pp. 37-67

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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017

In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, several cross-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in purpose, coverage, data sources, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and quality of documentation. A...

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Distributions in Motion : Economic Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Dynamics

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017

The joint determination of aggregate economic growth and distributional change has been studied empirically from at least three different perspectives. A macroeconomic approach that relies on cross-country data on poverty, inequality, and growth rates has generated some interesting stylized...

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