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Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009
In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This...
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Vulnerability to Downside Risk and Poverty in Vietnam
Povel, Felix - 2010
In this paper we propose a new measure of vulnerability called vulnerability to downside risk. The relevant benchmark for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty line. We argue that this measure adds complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329910
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Pro-Poor Progress in Education in Developing Countries?
Hartgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009
Spurred by international commitments and expanded funding at the national and international level, attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this expansion in enrolments reduced existing inequalities in...
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Perceived Vulnerability to Downside Risk
Povel, Felix - 2010
In this paper we propose an approach to vulnerability called perceived vulnerability to downside risk. We argue that the other concepts of vulnerability, though partially adhering to the focus axiom, do not exclusively consider downside risks in their measures. The reason for this is that most...
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A new inequality-sensitive multidimensional deprivation index (MDI) for dichotomous variables
Espinoza-Delgado, José; Silber, Jacques - 2021
In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure multidimensional deprivation when only dichotomous variables are available to assess deprivation in the various deprivation domains, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a...
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Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2008
We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, where relative income has shown a significant and negative impact on subjective well-being, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income...
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Rural Livelihoods, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals: Evidence from Ethiopian Survey Data
Bluffstone, Randall; Yesuf, Mahmud; Bushie, Bilisuma; … - 2008
This paper provides an in-depth look at some of the key development issues facing households in Ethiopia, in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Using household survey data from 2000, 2002, and 2005, we found that Ethiopia is making progress toward some vital MDG goals, but...
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Who cares when you close down? The effects of primary care practice closures on patients
Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019
This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice....
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Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient by Income Components: Various Types of Applications and Interpretations
Aaberge, Rolf; Aslaksen, Iulie - 1996
This paper aims at clarifying the notion "overall distributive effect" of an income component or a policy proposal and moreover discusses various approaches for assessing the distributional impact of the components of total income. We pay particular attention to the problem of evaluating the...
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An exact additive decomposition of the weighted arithmetic mean
Grini, Håkon; Johnsen, Magnus Berglund; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2021
applied. In this paper, we derive a decomposition of the weighted mean that is rooted in functional analysis. Our proposed … decomposition is easy to employ and interpret, and we show that it satisfies the difference counterpart to the index number time … compositional effects from the proposed decomposition and the Bennet decomposition is substantial, and for some industries, the …
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