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such signaling effects may arise in equilibrium and may lead to more unequal distributions of wealth and lower welfare than …
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This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty and inequality, and by their distributional...
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recently and thus cannot explain the rising welfare receipt. Following theoretical predictions, the probability that a rational …
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estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …
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This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … an inequality measure and this is combined with the Cost of Living Index to produce an overall welfare measure. This …
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This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …
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Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according...
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … 2018 to document how the mid-decade economic recession reversed the trend of pro-poor growth that dated back to the early … behind this reversal of fortune. We find that the effects of the recession on the labor market explain a lot of the recent …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …
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