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traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …
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households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …
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The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 … very important policy implications, since if the former is the main cause of poverty it is of paramount importance to break …
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This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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This paper studies the relationship between income inequality and risk taking. Increased income inequality is likely to enlarge the scope for upward comparisons and, in the presence of reference-dependent preferences, to increase willingness to take risks. Using a globally representative dataset...
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multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …
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This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefore we are able to analyze dynamics in and out of poverty … poverty exit and re-entry to be correlated even after controlling for observable characteristics and also account for …
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and employment are key factors in keeping households out of poverty; having a disability increases the probability of …Using longitudinal household data and an econometric model of conditional poverty transitions, this paper contributes … to the growing literature on poverty dynamics in Australian households. The results reveal that a range of household head …
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This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970–1980 birth cohort to 0.442 for the 1981–1988 birth cohort; this increase is more evident...
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