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Inequality and poverty when effort matters

Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics : open access journal 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor supplies of American adults have a positive income...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781941

What might explain today's conflicting narratives on global inequality?

Ravallion, Martin - 2018

How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one often hears? This paper reviews the arguments and evidence. A number of concerns about the underlying data are identified, with biases going in both directions. Conceptual...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938091

Survey Compliance and the Distribution of Income

Mistiaen, Johan A.; Ravallion, Martin - 2004

While it is improbable that households with different incomes are equally likely to participate in sample surveys, the lack of data for nonrespondents has hindered efforts to correct for the bias in measures of poverty and inequality. Mistiaen and Ravallion demonstrate how the latent income...

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Inequality and poverty when effort matters

Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995198

What might explain today's conflicting narratives on global inequality?

Ravallion, Martin - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943946

An Econometric Method of Correcting for Unit Nonresponse Bias in Surveys

Korinek, Anton; Mistiaen, Johan A.; Ravallion, Martin - 2005

Past approaches to correcting for unit nonresponse in sample surveys by re-weighting the data assume that the problem is ignorable within arbitrary subgroups of the population. Theory and evidence suggest that this assumption is unlikely to hold, and that household characteristics such as income...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062325

Survey Nonresponse and the Distribution of Income

Korinek, Anton; Mistiaen, Johan A.; Ravallion, Martin - 2005

The paper examines the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. Poverty and inequality measurement implications are discussed for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065969

Winners and losers from trade reform in Morocco

Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - In: The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and …, (pp. 27-60). 2008

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Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate

Ravallion, Martin - 2016

Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people have shared in the economic gains from globalization. Opponents in the debate differ in the extent to which they care about relative inequality versus absolute inequality,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749551

A poverty-inequality trade-off?

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

"The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on … systematic trade-off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with … facilitating it. However, there is evidence of a trade-off for absolute inequality, suggesting that those who want a lower absolute …

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