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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays

Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019

The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...

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Income inequality and government transfers in Mexico

Lambert, Frederic; Park, Hyunmin - 2019

We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality...

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Just end poverty now : the case for a global minimum income

Wells, Thomas R. - In: Basic income studies : BIS ; an international journal … 14 (2019) 2, pp. 1-13

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Paradoxes of social policy : welfare transfers, relative poverty, and redistribution preferences

Brady, David; Bostic, Amie - 2015

social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … developed and developing countries. Consistent with Korpi and Palme, we show (1) poverty is negatively associated with transfer …

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Transforming poverty-related policy with intersectionality

Corus, Canan; Saatcioglu, Bige; Kaufman-Scarborough, Carol - In: Journal of public policy & marketing : JPP & M ; an … 35 (2016) 2, pp. 211-222

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Deprivation and the dimensionality of welfare : a variable-selection cluster-analysis approach

Caruso, Germán; Sosa Escudero, Walter; Svarc, Marcela - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 61 (2015) 4, pp. 702-722

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Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program : boon or bane?

Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Paqueo, Vicente B. - 2016

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program has been much maligned and dismissed as a "dole-out" program. Critics have focused on the fact that it provides cash grants directly to poor families, believing it would promote the culture of mendicancy and dependence. Others believe that the grants would...

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Kicking away the ladder? : poverty reduction and public support for redistribution in emerging economies

Wietzke, Frank-Borge - In: Socio-economic review 14 (2016) 3, pp. 419-442

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Fifty years later : did the war on poverty fail?

Kilty, Keith M. - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 18 (2014) 2, pp. 220-223

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Whither development studies? : reflections on its relationship with social policy

Copestake, James G. - 2014

assimilation into other KLs, including SP. The two increasingly overlap in their analysis of the causes of relative poverty and …

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