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. -- inheritance ; land ; mobility ; inequality ; gender … land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non-land … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident …
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inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable … in terms of factors such as education and (non-land) inheritance. There are a number of other pronounced gender …
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We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure … the bottom when adults. We validate these estimates using two novel mobility measures that rank children and parents … without the need to impute informal income. We document substantial heterogeneity in mobility across individual …
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We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure … the bottom when adults. We validate these estimates using two novel mobility measures that rank children and parents … without the need to impute informal income. We document substantial heterogeneity in mobility across individual …
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We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure … the bottom when adults. We validate these estimates using two novel mobility measures that rank children and parents … without the need to impute informal income. We document substantial heterogeneity in mobility across individual …
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-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are …-2011), we identify the causal effect of intergenerational mobility on household expenditure’s future growth. We find that … intergenerational mobility has a positive effect on growth, particularly among the poor. Furthermore, mobility is found to be positive …
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Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income elasticity for the low income group? This paper examines this issue using large representative sample...
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Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …
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of inequality of opportunity as captured by inter-generational mobility in education outcomes. … accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality. We report on a research … project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts …
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