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Inequality, institutions and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305896
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Inequality, institutions, and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301914
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Keep it real : measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries
Beck, Ulrik - 2015
This paper investigates how two effects drive wedges between nominal and real inequality estimates. The effects are caused by (i) differences in the composition of consumption over the income distribution coupled with differential inflation of consumption items; and (ii) quantity discounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411136
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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?
Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019
The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012340
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Growth, employment, poverty and inequality in Tanzania
Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employment opportunities, however, it does very little to curb income inequality. Using official data from various local sources compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics, the paper provides an explanation as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794985
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Poverty and development in Tanzania
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Katera, Lucas; Mwombela, Stephen; … - 2018
The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817286
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Relative mortality improvements as a marker of socio-economic inequality across the developing world, 1990-2009
Basu, Deepankar - 2011
Using cross country regressions, this paper constructs a novel distance-to-frontier metric for tracking broad socio-economic inequality (including access of the poor to health infrastructure) over time for individual countries. Given the unavailability of reliable and consistent direct measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357193
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Prices and Global Inequality : New Evidence from Worldwide Scanner Data
Beck, Günter W. - 2020
How do prices affect inequality and living standards worldwide? To address existing biases in the measurement of prices and expenditure patterns across countries, this paper introduces a new global scanner database. This dataset provides harmonized barcode-level data on expenditures and prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825903
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Growth, Employment, Poverty and Inequality in Tanzania
Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employmentopportunities, however, it does very little to curb income inequality. Using official data fromvarious local sources compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics, the paper provides anexplanation as to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911973
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Income and Inequality : How Do They Affect Happiness in Latin America?
Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Maximo - 2013
This paper analyzes the relationship between income distribution and individual wellbeing levels based upon the happiness levels reported by individuals in the Latinobarometro survey 2008. The main contribution of this paper is to study not only the direct effects of the economic performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156824