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Towards comparative and aggregate vulnerability: An analysis of welfare distributions in rural areas in Thailand and Vietnam
Hardeweg, Bernd; Wagener, Andreas; Waibel, Hermann - 2010
Several measures of vulnerability to poverty have been suggested in the literature. In practice, only little is known about the robustness of vulnerability comparisons based on these often quite specific measures. The theory of stochastic orders can be applied to shed some light on such issues....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270272
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296046
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Towards Comparative and Aggregate Vulnerability: An Analysis of Welfare Distributions in Rural Provinces in Thailand and Vietnam
Hardeweg, Bernd; Wagener, Andreas; Waibel, Hermann - 2010
Several measures of vulnerability to poverty have been suggested in the literature. In practise, only little is known about the robustness of vulnerability comparisons based on these often quite specific measures. The theory of stochastic orders can be applied to shed some light on such issues....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301544
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Costly posturing: Relative status, ceremonies and early child development
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2011
Though social spending facilitates risk-pooling in the impoverished regions, too many resources devoted to social occasions may impose negative externalities and hinder efforts to alleviate poverty for households living close to subsistence. Conducting three waves census-type panel survey in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306944
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Socio-economic inequality in South Africa according to different disparity indices
Hakizimana, Jean-Mari; Geyer, Hermanus - 2014
; Kuznets ratio; Theil inequality index, mean logarithmic deviation, and the Atkinson index. In the study settlements are either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399940
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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 … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296009
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Clarifying Poverty Decomposition
Müller, Adrian - 2008
I discuss how poverty decomposition methods relate to integral approximation, which ultimately is the foundation of every decomposition of the temporal change of a quantity into key drivers. This offers a common framework for the different decomposition methods used in the literature, clarifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301441
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Relative income, network interactions and social stigma
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2010
on blood donation than community-specific inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307575
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The Macroeconomics of Model T
Föllmi, Reto; Wuergler, Tobias; Zweimüller, Josef - 2010
strong incentives for product innovations (new luxuries). We show that the inequality-growth relationship depends on which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270070
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Inequality and Growth: The Neglected Time Dimension
Oechslin, Manuel; Halter, Daniel; Zweimüller, Josef - 2010
When it comes to the inequality-growth relationship, the empirical literature offers contradictory assessments … of inequality while the level-based estimators also incorporate the negative consequences - which require more time to … materialize. Thus, the latter estimates come close to reflect the adverse overall impact of inequality in the long run. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273639