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Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family
Blundell, Richard W. - 2014
in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this paper, we use rich Norwegian data to answer these important questions …'s income matters less for the dynamics of inequality over the life-cycle …
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Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program : A Case Study for China
Ravallion, Martin - 2014
In theory, the informational advantage of decentralizing the eligibility criteria for a federal antipoverty program could come at a large cost to the program's performance in reaching the poor nationally. Whether this happens in practice depends on the size of the local-income effect on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750922
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Guaranteed Employment or Guaranteed Income?
Ravallion, Martin - 2018
The paper critically reviews the arguments for and against both employment guarantees and income guarantees when viewed as rights-based policy instruments for poverty reduction in a developing economy, with special reference to India. Evidence on India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
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Distributional Outcomes of a Decentralized Welfare Program
Galasso, Emanuela; Ravallion, Martin - 2004
Community-level targeting of antipoverty programs is now common. Do local community organizations target the poor better than the central government? In one program in Bangladesh, the answer tends to be yes, but performance varies from village to village. The authors try to explain why. It is...
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Chapter 59 Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
Ravallion, Martin - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3787-3846). 2007
The chapter critically reviews the methods available for the ex post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households or locations. The emphasis is on the problems encountered in applying these methods to anti-poverty programs in developing countries,...
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Robust inequality comparisons
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2010
curves which was proved to characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures. This paper uses … the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …
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Linking Representative Household Models with Household Surveys for Poverty Analysis : A Comparison of Alternative Methodologies
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2016
Agenor, Chen, and Grimm compare three approaches to linking macroeconomic models with representative households in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These approaches are a simple micro-accounting method, an extension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749458
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Survey Compliance and the Distribution of Income
Mistiaen, Johan A.; Ravallion, Martin - 2004
lack of data for nonrespondents has hindered efforts to correct for the bias in measures of poverty and inequality … inequality, but has only a small impact on poverty incidence up to commonly used poverty lines in the United States. This paper … methods of measuring poverty and inequality from survey data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076839
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Macro Models and Household Survey Data : Linkages for Poverty and Distributional Analysis
Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Chen, Derek H.C; Grimm, Michael - 2005
This paper focuses on approaches to linking macroeconomic models to household income data for poverty and distributional analysis. Given that linkage methods can influence the resulting poverty and income distribution effects, understanding the benefits and costs of various linkages is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065946
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Robust Inequality Comparisons
Aaberge, Rolf - 2010
curves which was proved to characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures. This paper uses … the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147546