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In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap …. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the … depression but also stress and poverty. I show that a successful one-time intervention has the power to permanently eliminate the …
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Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …
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since it impacts human capital transmission. When poor parents cannot afford to invest in health, poverty traps may arise as … whether households fall into the poverty trap. We demonstrate that high-quality schools ensure that successive generations …. We calibrate our model for Brazil and Chile and show that our model predicts that a poverty trap will arise in Brazil but …
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Several recent studies have shown that daughters whose mothers have participated in the welfare program Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) are themselves more likely to participate in AFDC when they head their own household. Other studies have shown that the earnings of parents and...
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This paper provides a critical survey and synthesis of the recent economic literature on intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges. The attenuation due to measurement error is compounded by sample truncation resulting from co-residency...
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Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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The middle-income trap is a serious problem in developing Asia and Pacific economies. Middle-income trap is the situation in which a country's growth slows after reaching middle-income levels and the transition to high-income levels becomes unattainable. International remittances of immigrants...
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foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the … panel data of 10 Asian developing countries. In terms of the dependent variables, this paper sets three poverty indicators …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …
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This paper aims to develop a relational geographical interpretation of energy poverty in the post-socialist states of … Skopje. I argue that energy poverty is produced by the relationships among three sets of contingencies: the socio … may become imprisoned in particular types of socio-spatial arrangements that contribute to the emergence of poverty …
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This ground-breaking study on the measurement of poverty shows how policy in this field has taken a wrong turn with … disastrous results.In recent years, poverty has generally been understood in ‘relative' terms. That is, people are regarded as … poor if they earn less than some benchmark relative to average earnings. One perverse result of such relative poverty …
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