. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …

This paper documents and describes the evolution of income and consumption inequality in Bolivia between 1999 and 2011 …. We find that income and consumption inequality measured by the Gini in- dex both dropped 22% during the period we analyze …, making Bolivia the top performer in the Latin American region regarding income inequality reduction. To make a more complete …

with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income …

weight and family inputs (income, consumption, and breastfeeding). Children exposed to El Niño floods, especially during the … 1997-98 suffered a decline in income, total consumption, and food consumption in the aftermath of the shock. Moreover …

This paper introduces a new approach to examine the relationship between income and democracy by employing panel count … bounds. We find evidence that though income and democracy are positively related the magnitude of the coefficient is … hypothesis. Moreover, once we control for income endogeneity, the relationship between income and democracy turns to be …

We revisit Lipset‘s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … dynamic and heterogeneous panel data estimation techniques, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …

€˜buffer stock’ model of optimal consumption in the presence of labor income uncertainty and credit constraints. Saving in the model …

simple metric that quantifies the associated income windfall. We also document saving patterns during these episodes and … propose a measure of how much of the income windfall was saved. We find that Latin America‘s terms-of-trade shocks of the last … post-boom income, the composition of such savings matters. Specifically, in past episodes, savings allocated to foreign …