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Skill Dynamics, Inequality and Social Policies

Bauduin, Nicolas; Hellier, Joël - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

Within a model where the parents make the decisions relating to their children’s education, we show that skill dynamics normally results in a sub-optimal situation involving income per capita. This derives from an under-education trap that is endogenously generated. When sub-optimality is...

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The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

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The ex-ante effects of non-contributory pensions in Colombia and Peru

Olivera, Javier; Zuluaga, Blanca - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

in Colombia and Peru. Relying on household survey data, we simulate the potential impact of the transfer on poverty … Nested Logit Model. Our results show that a NCP in Colombia and Peru contributes to the reduction of poverty and inequality …

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The Luxembourg Income Study

Ravallion, Martin - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

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Inequality from a global perspective: An alternative approach

Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from...

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The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An overview

Lustig, Nora; Amábile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. When one includes the in-kind transfers in education and health, valued …

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Disparities in Socio-Economic Outcomes: Some Positive Propositions and their Normative Implications

Lambert, Peter J.; Subramanian, S. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

Demographic disparities between the rates of occurrence of an adverse economic outcome can be observed to be increasing even as general social improvements supposedly lead towards the elimination of the adverse outcome in question. Scanlan (2006) noticed this tendency and developed a...

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Influence functions for distributional statistics

Essama-Nssah, B.; Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

central tendency, inequality and poverty and also measures of the degree of pro-poorness of a shock- or policy-induced change …

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Rising food prices and household welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

percent urban, higher food prices still led to a greater incidence and depth of poverty at the national level. …

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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom

Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty …

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