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lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … China's poverty can be attributed to households living outside classified poor areas. People living in a household with many … members, those with a household head with a short education, and children face higher poverty risks than other persons …
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among household members, the household's expenditure burden, as well as the lack of financial assets. Further, a long … education of the household head and membership in the Communist Party reduces the probability of receiving social assistance …
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do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …
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. Determinants of persistent and temporary poverty in rural China differ due to location as well as household characteristics …
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effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities …
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equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia … Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. Our analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to household demographic …
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The Brazilian government raises taxes amounting to 35% of GDP and spends more than two thirds of this on social programmes. These shares are in pair with the OECD averages and well in excess of Latin America averages. However, while tax-benefit systems in most OECD countries reduce income...
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The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling …-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The distinction between true state dependence and individual heterogeneity has …
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endings in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The first part of the … characteristics of the household and the household head are examined in order to identify the determinants of the transitions into and … characteristics of the household head and the household and particular employment and demographic events), as well as to the inclusion …
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scale in household size a family of six needs three times as much as a family of two. This paper examines the sensitivity of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … current-method estimates with a constant- elasticity scale adjustment that divides total household consumption or income not …
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