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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty : A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2013

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions

Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2021

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers …

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey - 2011

The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

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Subjective Well-Being and Income : Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2021

Many scholars have argued that once “basic needs” have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing...

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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 …

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century U.S. White Statures

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Using a source of 19th century U.S. state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates...

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Response to Baker and Fugh-Berman's Critique of My Paper, 'Why Has Longevity Increased More in Some States than in Others?'

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2009

during 2000-2006, a period of increasing poverty and obesity and declining health insurance coverage …

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Biological Well-Being in Late 19th Century Philippines

Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2021

This paper investigates the biological standard of living toward the end of Spanish rule. We investigate levels, trends, and determinants of physical stature from the birth cohorts of the 1860s to the 1890s using data on 23,000 Filipino soldiers enlisted by the U.S. military between 1901 and...

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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, … - 2021

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in...

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