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Heterogeneous Effects of Farm and Nonfarm Income on Household Consumption Expenditure and Inequality

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the heterogeneous effects of farm income and nonfarm income on household consumption expenditure and consumption expenditure inequality, using data from the 2016 China Labor Force Dynamics Survey. A two‐stage residual inclusion model is employed to address the endogeneity of nonfarm income.
Wanglin Ma, Hongyun Zheng, Puneet Vatsa
wiley   +1 more source

Rawls’ fairness, income distribution and alarming level of Gini coefficient

Economics: Journal Articles, 2017
Yong Tao, Xiangjun Wu, Changshuai Li
doaj  

Using Local Expert Knowledge to Measure Prices: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Vietnam

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many countries lack spatially disaggregated consumer price data needed to estimate real inequality and spatial patterns of poverty. Such data are especially absent in poor countries where weak infrastructure and high transport costs create large price variation over space.
John Gibson, Trinh Le
wiley   +1 more source

Health and Survival Impacts of Early Childhood Development Programmes: The Case of the Happy Child Programme in Brazil

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adds to the growing evidence on the impacts of early childhood development (ECD) programming by examining one of the world's largest home visitation programmes, the Happy Child Programme in Brazil, and its impacts on child vaccination and preventable death rates.
Raquel Tebaldi, Franziska Gassmann, Bruno Martorano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal policy and economic activity: new causal evidence

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Utilizing a quasi‐natural experiment design, we identify an exogenous cut in local taxes accompanied by an equivalent reduction in local government spending, and we estimate the impact of these exogenous changes on income. We exploit a unique regional dataset that combines local income data with local voting outcomes on current expense tax ...
David M. Brasington, Marios Zachariadis
wiley   +1 more source

Internet, Inequality, and Regime Stability

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the link between income inequality and political instability, focusing on the moderating role of Internet penetration. Using data from over 120 countries (1996–2020), we find a conditional relationship: in low‐Internet countries, higher inequality associates with lower instability, likely due to limited political awareness ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Hassan F. Gholipour   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional differences, distribution dynamics, and convergence of multidimensional food security levels in the Yangtze river economic belt. [PDF]

PLoS One
Cheng J, Liu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

All Social Comparisons are Local? Inequality, Coethnicity and Subjective Economic Position

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent studies have found that the self‐perceived, rather than the objective, economic position affects individual political behavior. But how do individuals self‐assess their own position? In this paper, we study how local conditions – local inequality and coethnicity – affect this self‐assessment.
Gerlinde Theunissen, Nils B. Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World's Scientific Elites

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. In contrast, the Global South remains largely absent, with the notable exception of Beijing's dramatic rise.
Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose, Leiboyu Xiang, Neil Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Households' poverty and inequality after the COVID-19: Insights from panel data of face-to-face surveys in Southeast Asia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Do MH, Nguyen TT, Grote U.
europepmc   +1 more source