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This study explores empirical differences in poverty analysis under two distinct normative approaches: income poverty and Amartya Sen’s capability approach, focusing on nutritional achievement as the main dimension to measure poverty in the latter. The analysis focuses on the association...
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This paper tests the existence of poverty traps in three Southern Cone countries: Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. We apply the methodology developed by Antman and McKenzie (2005): based on pseudopanels, we model the income dynamics of households and analyze the existence of heterogeneity in their...
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In this paper, we analyze how top income earners (TIEs) respond to changes in personalincome taxation. Our identification strategy exploits a unique reform to Uruguay’s progressivelabor income tax schedule that affected differently the tax rates of taxpayers within the top 1%of the labor...
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