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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023
How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550803
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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023
How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234431
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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2024
How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015044992
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Migration et Pauvreté en Haïti : Impacts Économiques et Sociaux des Envois de Fonds sur L’Inégalité et la Pauvreté? (Migration and Poverty in Haiti: Economic and Social Consequence...
Paul, Bénédique - 2014
Il existe peu d'études concernant les conséquences économiques et sociales des envois de fonds des travailleurs migrants sur la pauvreté et l'inégalité de leur pays d'origine jusqu'à récemment, notamment en Haïti. Le montant connu des fonds envoyés en Haïti par la diaspora haïtienne...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066053
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Consumption inequality in urban China, 1995-2013
Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina - 2017
We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 ….33 in 1995 to 0.32 in 2002, but it increased to 0.36 in 2013. This followed the same trend as that of urban income, though …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876575
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Spatial consumption inequality in Mozambique
Gradín, Carlos - 2024
economic growth in two urban areas: the Maputo area, which encompassed the capital, during the expansive phase, and the urban … affected the capital and other urban areas, producing a strong mitigating effect on inequality that might be only temporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015076273
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"We are constantly overdrawn, despite not spending money on anything other than bills and food" : a mixed-methods, participatory study of food and food insecurity in the context of...
Pybus, Katie; Power, Madeleine; Pickett, Kate - In: The journal of poverty and social justice 29 (2021) 1, pp. 21-45
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189812
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The income-pollution relationship and the role of income distribution Evidence from Swedish household data
Brännlund, Runar; Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006
The main purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between pollution and income at household level. The study is motivated by the recent literature emphasizing the importanceof income distribution for the aggregate relation between pollution and income. The main findings from previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771226
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Inequality and climate change : two problems, one solution?
Nicolli, Francesco; Gilli, Marianna; Vona, Francesco - 2022
This paper re-examines the relationship between per capita income, inequality, and per capita emissions while accounting for nonhomotheticity in green preferences and nonlinearities in the impact of economic growth on GHG emissions. Theoretically, our research is motivated by the fact that if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463702
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Perceived relative income and preferences for public good provision
Pana, Anca; Budjan, Angelika J.; Eymess, Tillmann - 2023
Guided by a theoretical framework, we study how perceived relative income affects preferences for public goods. In a randomized survey experiment, we inform respondents from India of their official income rank and elicit preferences for air quality, including actual contributions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014303717