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Evolution of living standards in Romanian rural area during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lupu, Geanina-Valentina - 2020

those in rural areas. All the factors presented increase the risk of poverty for the categories at the limit of this …

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Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2010

This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995-2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by increased SAP payments controlling for income, whether...

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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being

Wolf, Tobias; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie - 2016

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...

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Is Posner right? An empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2010

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we...

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Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Thiele, Rainer - 2010

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Orphanhood and Critical Periods in Children's Human Capital Formation: Long-Run Evidence from North-Western Tanzania

Hagen, Jens; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

Losing a parent is a trauma that has consequences for human capital formation. Does it matter at what age this trauma occurs? Using longitudinal data from the Kagera region in Tanzania that span thirteen years from 1991-2004, we find considerable impact heterogeneity across age at bereavement,...

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Thiele, Rainer; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2010

This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large nationally representative sample of rural households from Zambia. To minimize selection bias that may arise because AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of...

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Short-term Training Programs for Immigrants: Do Effects Differ from Natives and Why?

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Aldashev, Alisher; Walter, Thomas - 2010

We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step,...

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Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Consumption Expenditure Data: An Application to Bolivia

Spatz, Julius; Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie - 2006

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

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Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana

Lay, Jann; Schüler, Dana - 2008

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...

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