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changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …
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changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589164
for a variety of welfare calculations. …
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Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...
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Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023746
The aim of this paper is to implement distributional considerations in comparing the economic well-being of individuals over time and living in different regions in Italy. Both Absolute Lorenz Curves (ALC) and standard Lorenz curves are used to address this issue from both a national and...
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ranking. Indeed, unanimous welfare prescriptions are hardly achieved at any dimension, which means that more specific …
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impact of inflation has an ambiguous path over the period, yet a large concentration of welfare losses is found in the period …
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provider and little attention has been paid to environmental health related inputs and welfare analyses of price changes …. Policymakers and donor agencies involved in sanitation programmes will typically be interested in the welfare implications of … different policy alternatives. Contrary to earlier studies the purpose of the present paper is to analyse the welfare …
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-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of … deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation quasi-ordering obeys a weaker version of the principle of transfers: welfare … individuals and allocated to one arbitrary poorer individual. We identify the subclass of extended Gini social welfare functions …
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