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Top Indian Incomes, 1956-2000

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Piketty, Thomas - 2003

This paper presents data on the evolution of top incomes and wages from 1956 to 2000 in India using individual tax … were in 1956. We argue that this U-shaped pattern is broadly consistent with the evolution of economic policy in India: The … period from 1956 to the early to mid 1980s was also the period of "socialist" policies in India, while the subsequent period …

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What Is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 22 (2008) 2, pp. 3-28

We expect a lot from the middle classes. At least three distinct arguments about the special economic role of the middle class are traditionally made. In one, new entrepreneurs armed with a capacity and a tolerance for delayed gratification emerge from the middle class and create employment and...

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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The Two Poverties

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2001

There are at least two distinct and inconsistent views of poverty. These views, which can be called "poverty as desperation" and "poverty as vulnerability", have different implications about anti-poverty policy. It is important to confront the conflict between them before data can be applied to...

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The Two Poverties

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2003

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Limited Attention and Income Distribution

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Mullainathan, Sendhil - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 489-93

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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2008

This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the middle classes defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or...

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Educational Policy and the Economics of the Family

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2003

This paper analyzes the implications of alternative ways to model decision making by families for educational policy. We show that many of the policy implications associated with credit constraints cannot be distinguished from the implications of models of the family that differ from the...

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The Economic Lives of the Poor

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2010

This paper uses survey data from 13 countries to document the economic lives of the poor (those living on less than $2 dollar per day per capita at purchasing power parity) or the extremely poor (those living on less than $1 dollar per day). We describe their patterns of consumption and income...

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Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2005

Growth theory traditionally assumed the existence of an aggregate production function, whose existence and properties are closely tied to the assumption of optimal resource allocation within each economy. We show extensive evidence, culled from the microdevelopment literature, demonstrating that...

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