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), considered a microcredit policy aimed at low-income formal and informal micro-entrepreneurs, providing credit without collateral …
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There is a long history of models attempting to identify the causes of corruption, yet empirical analysis is complicated. Not only is data difficult to obtain and often available only for few countries and a limited number of years, but such estimation involves inherent complexities. This paper...
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income missing data for Luxembourg in the European Values Study data-set of 1999 and 2008. …
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Although the determinants of income are complex, the results are surprisingly uniform. To a first approximation, top … incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent … incomes, including how income gets redistributed as the rich get richer. …
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Although the determinants of income are complex, the results are surprisingly uniform. To a first approximation, top … incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent … incomes, including how income gets redistributed as the rich get richer. …
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Measurement error in short-run expenditures from household surveys may attenuate estimated effects of permanent income … estimate errors in variables regressions of the impact of income on calorie intakes. In contrast to influential studies finding … no effect of income, the results suggest significant nutritional responses to income in poor countries. …
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This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …
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In this paper I seek to identify and estimate the causal effect of fertility on family income. I analyze the … household income, while income per capita remains constant. For the third child, the effect appears to be negative, although the …
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recent Vietnam Household and Living Standard Surveys, the paper estimates the effect of remittances on per capita income, per … Vietnam increases household income and expenditure. Yet, the study also finds evidence that international remittances may …
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It is common that economists are used to establish a direct relationship between growth and welfare. Nevertheless, the link among these variables not always is so virtuous. This suspicion went in the last years to investigating about the perception of people on your proper welfare. The slogan...
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