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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
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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? : intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011
Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, we study the role played by land inheritance, other bequests and parental background as influences on an adult's economic welfare and economic activities. While intergenerational linkages are evident, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311712
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Intergenerational mobility and interpersonal inequality in an African economy
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - In: Journal of development economics 110 (2014), pp. 327-344
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011293056
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Is it what you Inherited or what you Learnt? : Intergenerational Linkage and Interpersonal Inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie - 2011
Institutional features of the African setting-large extended families and imperfect credit and land markets-matter to the equity and efficiency roles played by intergenerational linkages. Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394947
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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? : intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009384838
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Is it What You Inherited or What You Learnt? Intergenerational Linkage and Interpersonal Inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie - 2017
Institutional features of the African setting -- large extended families and imperfect credit and land markets -- matter to the equity and efficiency roles played by intergenerational linkages. Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976007
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Is It What You Inherited or What You Learnt? Intergenerational Linkage and Interpersonal Inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique - 2012
Institutional features of the African setting -- large extended families and imperfect credit and land markets -- matter to the equity and efficiency roles played by intergenerational linkages. Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551152
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Is Literacy Shared within Households? Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
Basu, Kaushik; Narayan, Ambar; Ravallion, Martin - 2003
A member of a collective-action household may or may not share the benefits of literacy with others in that household …; the shared gains from doing so may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the family. Using household …, but would also be consistent with an intra-household externality of literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122441
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076839