Search Results - subject:"STANDARD OF LIVING"

Leaving the Enclave : Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office

Abramitzky, Ran - 2020

We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910. Compared to their neighbors with the same occupation and income score at baseline, program participants earned 4 percent more ten years after removal, and these gains persisted to...

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The Influence of Early Life Health Conditions on Life Course Health

Mallo, Manuel Flores - 2020

We expand on earlier studies investigating the links between early health and later health by including different dimensions of early-life health and multiple life course outcomes consisting of the age of onset of serious cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and multiple job-related health outcomes....

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Persistence through Revolutions

Alesina, Alberto - 2020

Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status? The Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1950s and Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 aimed to do exactly that. Using newly digitized archival records and contemporary...

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Economic stress in non-poor Spanish households during the Great Recession

Ródenas Calatayud, Carmen; Martí, Mónica; León … - In: Applied economic analysis : AEA 28 (2020) 82, pp. 19-45

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Feeling richer and happier? : self-perceived economic welfare and life satisfaction : evidence of "Easterlin paradox" from Russian longitudinal data

Jin, Olivia S.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020

Do you feel happier when you think you are richer? How does the perception of your own economic welfare affect your life satisfaction? This study examines subjective economic welfare and life satisfaction using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey covering years 1994 through 2018. The study...

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Lives and livelihoods: estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...

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The costs of disability in Australia: a hybrid panel-data examination

Binh Thanh Vu; Khanam, Rashida; Rahman, Maisha; Nghiem, Son - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 6, pp. 1-10

. This paper estimates the costs of disability in Australia using the standard-of-living approach. This approach defines the … of disability in Australia by using the Standard of Living (SoL) and a dynamic model approach. It examines the dynamics … need to increase their adult-equivalent disposable income by 50% (in the short-run) to achieve the same standard of living …

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Canada's forgotten poor? : putting singles living in deep poverty on the policy radar

Herd, Dean; Kim, Yuna; Carrasco, Christine - 2020

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Livelihood diversification strategies : resisting vulnerability in Egypt

Helmy, Imane - 2020

Livelihood diversification is attracting considerable interest as a tool to cope with economic shocks and resist vulnerability. This paper investigates the evolution of livelihood diversification in Egypt with a particular focus on wealth and urban-rural divides. Using Egypt Labor Market Panel...

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Land Productivity and Plot Size : Is Measurement Error Driving the Inverse Relationship?

Desiere, Sam - 2020

This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship, which states that land productivity decreases as plot size increases. Existing empirical studies on the inverse plot-size productivity relationship define land productivity or yields as self-reported...

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