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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales
Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020
Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being...
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Status seeking behavior of the poor : a study on India
Marjit, Sugata; Santra, Sattwik; Hati, Koushik Kumar - 2018
relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898668
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Does inequality affect the consumption patterns of the poor? – The role of “status seeking” behaviour
Marjit, Sugata; Santra, Sattwik; Hati, Koushik Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
and negative relationship between inequality and share of nutritional consumption as reflected in the consumption of food …. Finally the paper looks at the empirical relationship between inequality and consumption across districts within states of … India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption patterns via status effect cannot be rejected. In fact the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259208
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Relative Social Status and Conflicting Measures of Poverty - A Behavioral Analytical Model
Marjit, Sugata; Santra, Sattwik; Hati, Koushik Kumar - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2015
We consider a situation where the relatively ‘poor’ are concerned about their relative income status with respect to a relevant reference group. Such a concern is explicitly introduced in a utility function to study the consumption behavior of the poor. We point towards a possible...
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Pro-poor growth: concepts and measurement with country case studies
Kakwani, Nanak; Khandker, Shahid; Son, Hyun H. - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2004
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The challenge of Inequality
Ehrenpreis, Dag - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2007
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005583697
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Estimating the value and distributional effects of free state schooling
Andreou, Sofia N.; Koutsampelas, Christos; Pashardes, Panos - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 2, pp. 303-305
The effects of free of charge state education on income distribution are often studied by allocating government education outlays to households, assuming that these outlays equal the benefit which households attach to state schooling. This paper proposes a demand analysis approach to estimating...
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Relative Social Status and Conflicting Measures of Poverty: A Behavioural Analytical Model
Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit; Hati, Koushik Kumar - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and … - 2015
We consider a situation where the relatively ‘poor’ are concerned about their relative income status with respect to a relevant reference group. Such a concern is explicitly introduced in a utility function to study the consumption behavior of the poor. We point towards a possible conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208182
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The German spatial poverty divide: poorly endowed or bad luck?
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2009
We study inter-temporal changes in poverty for Germany from year 1978 to 2003, and we employ the bootstrap method to test for statistical significance of results. All results are decomposed by household type and region. Poverty estimates are particularly high for single parents. Most striking,...
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Differences across countries and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales
Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelly; … - In: International review of applied economics 34 (2020) 6, pp. 734-757
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