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Taxes, Transfers, and Income Redistribution in Latin America

Lustig, Nora - In: World Bank - Inequality in Focus 1 (2012) 2, pp. 1-5

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Comparing the incidence of taxes and social spending in Brazil and the United States

Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes. In both...

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Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America

Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 16 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … hourly labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …

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Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country …

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The rise and fall of income inequality in Mexico: 1989 - 2010

Campos, Raymundo; Esquivel, Gerardo; Lustig, Nora - 2012

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the re-centred influence function method to decompose changes …; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially after 2000. …

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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2021) 3, pp. 571-598

The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...

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