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A note on the Statistical Significance of Changes in Inequality

Escudero, Walter Sosa; Gasparini, Leonardo - In: Económica XLVI (2000) 1, pp. 111-122

This note illustrates how modern computer intensive tools like the bootstrap provide a simple and efficient way to compute interval estimates and standard errors for inequality measures. Additionally, the same methodology is used to implement a formal test of the null hypothesis of no changes in...

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Pobreza y Desigualdad en America Latina: Conceptos, Herramientas y Aplicaciones

Gasparini, Leonardo; Cicowiez, Martín; Escudero, … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2014

La pobreza y la desigualdad son problemas sociales centrales en América Latina. Este libro desarrolla las principales discusiones conceptuales sobre estos temas, provee un amplio conjunto de herramientas analíticas, las aplica a datos concretos de encuestas de hogares y ofrece evidencia para...

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Income, Deprivation, and Perceptions in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa; Marchionni, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This paper is part of a large project on quality of life and deprivation in LAC commissioned by the IDB's Research Department (RES) that makes extensive use of the Gallup World Poll. This survey provides rich data on a wide range of issues in over 130 countries, 23 of them from LAC. This paper...

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Bienestar y distribución del ingreso en Argentina, 1980 – 1998

Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa - In: Económica XLV (1999) 3, pp. 183-217

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Implicit Rents from Own-Housing and Income Distribution: Econometric Estimates for Greater Buenos Aires

Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2004

Most income studies do not take into account the implicit rent obtained by households who inhabit their own dwellings, a fact that introduces a potentially relevant bias in inequality, poverty, and welfare measures. In this paper we estimate these implicit rents for the Greater Buenos Aires area...

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Multidimensional poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean New evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa; Marchionni, … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2010

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Implicit Rents from Own-Housing and Income Distribution. Econometric Estimates for Greater Buenos Aires

Escudero, Walter Sosa; Gasparini, Leonardo - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2003

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Características demográficas y pobreza en la Argentina

Gasparini, Leonardo; Busso, Matías; Giovagnoli, Paula; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

Este resumen ejecutivo es la última versión disponible de "Características demográficas y pobreza en la Argentina" que formó parte del Diálogo Regional de Política Red para la Reducción de la Pobreza y la Protección Social. El objetivo central del trabajo es analizar la dimensión...

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Características demográficas y pobreza en la Argentina

Gasparini, Leonardo; Busso, Matías; Giovagnoli, Paula; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

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Characterization of inequality changes through microeconometric decompositions. The case of Greater Buenos Aires.

Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; Sosa … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2000

We apply a variant of the microeconometric decomposition methodology proposed in Bourguignon et al. (1998) to assess the relevance of various factors that affected inequality in the period 1986-1998 in the Greater Buenos Aires area. The results of the paper suggest that the small change in...

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