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Poverty and Inequality in the First Decade of South Africa's Democracy : What can be Learnt from Panel Data from Kwazulu-Natal?
Agüero, Jorge - 2010
Despite striking indicators depicting high per capita Gross Domestic Product together with poor social indicators, changes in the incidence and severity of money-metric poverty in South Africa since 1993 have been a source of debate. Household surveys suggest that poverty appears to have...
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Mobility and the Dynamics of Poverty in Iran : Evidence from the 1992–1995 Panel Survey
Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad - 2016
In the last three decades, revolutionary Iran has experienced large shocks to its political and economic system with likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively high and stable over nearly four decades. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008295
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Growth, Poverty, and Inequality : A Regional Panel
Wodon, Quentin T. - 2016
Empirical work in Bangladesh shows that growth reduces poverty in both urban and rural areas - and is associated with rising inequality only in urban areas. It appears that promoting growth in rural areas rather than urban areas would reduce poverty more. Most empirical work on how growth...
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Dynamic linkages between poverty, inequality, crime, and social expenditures in a panel of 16 countries : two‑step GMM estimates
Anser, Muhammad Khalid; Yousaf, Zahid; Nassani, … - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 9 (2020) 43, pp. 1-25
The study examines the relationship between growth-inequality-poverty (GIP) triangle and crime rate under the premises of inverted U-shaped Kuznets curve and pro-poor growth scenario in a panel of 16 diversified countries, over a period of 1990-2014. The study employed panel Generalized Method...
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Socio-Economic Differences in Life Expectancy - the Potential of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (Soziale Unterschiede in der Lebenserwartung - Moeglichkeiten auf Basis des S...
Kroll, Lars Eric; Lampert, Thomas - 2008
This paper describes the potential of analysing socio-economic inequalities in life expectancy using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). It includes a short review on available data sources and recent evidence on inequalities in life expectancy for Germany. Subsequently the...
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Extreme weather and risk preference : panel evidence from Germany
Kahsay, Goytom Abraha; Osberghaus, Daniel - 2016
Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical … predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the … whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …
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Advance information and consumption insurance : evidence from panel data
Pedroni, Marcelo; Singh, Swapnil; Stoltenberg, Christian - 2022 - Preliminary, April 15, 2022
We investigate whether US households possess advance information about their future income and what this means for consumption insurance. Based on insights from a theoretical model, we propose a new test to detect advance information, which requires only panel data on consumption and income....
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Measuring vulnerability to poverty using long-term panel data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply different regression models, based on household covariates and previous-year equivalence income, to classify a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358150
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Measuring vulnerability to poverty using long-term panel data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to poverty using cross-sectional data and panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply different regression models, based on household covariates and previous-year equivalence income, to classify a household as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671469
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What is the investment loss due to uncertainty?
Panagiōtidēs, Theodōros; Printzis, Panagiotis - Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung - 2019
We investigate the effect of uncertainty on investment. We employ a unique dataset of 25000 Greek firms' balance sheets for 14 years covering the period before and after the eurozone crisis. A dynamic factor model is employed to proxy uncertainty. The investment performance of 14 sectors is...
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