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An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Health and Education on Income Distribution and Poverty in SAARC Countries

wani, Nassir - 2022

The purpose of this paper is to inquire into the effects of health and education on income distribution and poverty in … specified. In these models, the main variables are income level, health status, level of education, and level of savings. The … the health and education status in SAARC countries will reduce income inequality and poverty. The results of the empirical …

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Educational inequality in Mozambique

Berg, Servaas van der; Maia, Carlos da; Burger, Cobus - 2017

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

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Discrimination, Income Determination and Inequality – The case of Shenzhen

Gravemeyer, Stefan; Gries, Thomas; Xue, Jinjun - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2008

This paper estimates the income effect of non productivity related discriminatory factors, compared to productivity related returns on human capital in Shenzhen. The design of the Shenzhen Household Survey 2005 that was employed enables us to include a large set of discriminating factors in a...

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A New Data Set of Educational Inequality in the World, 1950-2010 : Gini Index of Education by Age Group

Wail, Benaabdelaali; Hanchane, Said; Kamal, Abdelhak - 2014

educational systems, and monitoring and evaluating processes of educational development. This paper introduces a new quinquennial … education by 5-year age intervals and by sex for a broad panel. We use the Gini index of education as a measure of the … country and for each age group. This approach can significantly improve the measurement of inequality in education by …

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Educational Inequality and Educational Poverty - The Chinese Case in the Period 1975-2004

Saccone, Donatella - 2009

Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this … inequalities at national, regional and sector level. For this reason, these studies underlined the relevant role of education in … education distribution. In particular, we exploit the Theil index decomposition properties to distinguish between distributive …

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The Longer-Term Effects of Human Capital Enrichment Programs on Poverty and Inequality : Oportunidades in Mexico

McKee, Douglas - 2011

Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of these children. It adapts methods...

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The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality : oportunidades in Mexico

McKee, Douglas; Todd, Petra - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 67-100

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Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda : a broad perspective

Verpoorten, Marijke - 2014

human development and subjective well-being. …

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Snakes and ladders and loaded dice : poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008-2017

Zizzamia, Rocco; Schotte, Simone; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2019

Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage are consequential in determining material conditions in the present, and how these markers structure economic opportunity over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic...

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Structural transformation, growth, and inequality : evidence from Viet Nam

Sarma, Vengadeshvaran; Paul, Saumik; Wan, Guanghua - 2017

We examine whether structural transformation leads to growth and income inequality in Viet Nam. Using three rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (2002, 2006, and 2010), we estimate re-centered influence functions to construct a decomposition analysis. Our results indicate that...

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