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The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico

McKee, Douglas; Todd, Petra E. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 67-100

improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings …

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it …

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The impact of income adjustments in the CASEN survey on the measurement of inequality in Chile

Bravo, David; Valderrama Torres, José A. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 43-65

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a …

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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth

Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-13, pp. 1-57

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

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Redistributive Impacts of Government and Private Household Activities. Trends in Equivalized Household Net Incomes and Intra-household Earnings in Germany, 1985-2005

Krause, Peter - In: Intervention. European Journal of Economics and … 05 (2008) 1, pp. 129-153

poverty. The analyses are based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which provides detailed annual …

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Estabilidad en la desigualdad: Chile 1990 - 2003

Larrañaga, Osvaldo; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 295-329

This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order to answer the question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The methodology utilized are micro-simulations of income distribution, which is the most...

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The COVID-19 crisis and counter-cyclical policies in Brazil

Tavani, Daniele - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 18 (2021) 2, pp. 198-206

This paper considers both secular and medium-run trends to argue that the US economy was already vulnerable to shocks before the COVID-19 crisis. Long-run trends have shown a pattern of secular stagnation and increasing inequality since the 1980s, while the economy has displayed hysteresis...

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The Inheritance of Race Revisited: Childhood Wealth and Income and Black–White Disadvantages in Adult Life Chances

Brady, David; Finnigan, Ryan; Kohler, Ulrich; Legewie, … - In: Sociological Science 7 (2020), pp. 599-627

Vast racial inequalities continue to prevail across the United States and are closely linked to economic resources. One particularly prominent argument contends that childhood wealth accounts for black–white (BW) disadvantages in life chances. This article analyzes how much childhood wealth...

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The geography of intergenerational mobility: Evidence of educational persistence and the “Great Gatsby Curve” in Brazil

Leone, Tharcisio - In: Review of Development Economics 26 (2022) 3, pp. 1227-1251

This paper explores the variation in intergenerational educational mobility across the Brazilian states based on univariate econometric techniques. The analysis of the national household survey (PNAD‐2014) confirms a strong variation in mobility among the 27 federative units in Brazil and...

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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics

Biewen, Martin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …

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