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Caste, ethnicity and poverty in rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households is significantly higher than non-scheduled households....

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Cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and school-to-work transitions in rural China

Glewwe, Paul; Huang, Qiuqiong; Park, Albert - 2017

Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills. This study is among the first to examine how both...

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The urban-rural divide in the perception of the poverty line : the case of Russia

Nivorozhkin, Eugeniy; Nivorožkin, Anton M.; … - In: Applied economics letters 17 (2010) 16/18, pp. 1543-1546

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Household collective models : three decades of theoretical contributions and empirical evidence

Donni, Olivier; Molina, José Alberto - 2018

Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …

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A different perspective on the evolution of UK income inequality

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018

The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...

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Are consumer sentiments useful in Japan? : an application of a new market-timing test

Tsuchiya, Y. - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 4/6, pp. 356-359

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Partial identification of the long-run causal effect of food security on child health

Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Manan - 2013

Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about how these issues are intertwined. Here, we assess the causal relationship between food security during early childhood and relatively long-run measures of child health....

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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …

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Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia

Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002

institutions are underdeveloped and there is a very limited social safety net, while household structure closely resembles that …

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Household labor supply effects of low-wage subsidies in Germany

Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …

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