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Income Distribution and Consumption Deprivation: An Analytical Link

, 2008
This article conceives poverty in terms of the consumption of essential food, makes use of a new deprivation (or poverty) function, and examines the effects of changes in the mean and the variance of the income distribution on poverty, assuming a log ...
Mallick, Sushanta K.
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Behavioral Coping With Food Price Inflation: Patterns Among U.S. Households

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent food price inflation has placed substantial pressure on household budgets, food security, and mental well‐being. Using Household Pulse Survey data, we combine k‐modes clustering and Double Machine Learning to identify distinct household coping groups and examine differences in how households respond to rising food prices across groups ...
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of higher education investment on the urban-rural income gap: An analysis of mediating and threshold effects based on data from China's eight major comprehensive economic zones. [PDF]

PLoS One
Liu S, Zhang Y, Liu Y, Wang N.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Effect of SNAP Purchasing Power on Diet Quality

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits millions of eligible low‐income Americans by increasing access to food, helping to reduce food insecurity. Previous studies have documented that the geographical variation in local food prices leads to significant differences in SNAP's purchasing power.
Farah Khan, Augustine Denteh
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Examining the U-shaped relationship between non-agricultural sources water pollution and the urban-rural income gap. [PDF]

PLoS One
He D, Sheng Z, Tian C.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Empirical Study on the Impact of Educational Gap on Income Gap [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Education Science and Economic Management (ICESEM 2017), 2017
Hongmei Li, Yu Wang
openaire   +1 more source

A Resource-Based Approach to the Modeling and Simulation of Income Distribution: The Case of Pakistan

, 2011
Developing countries are affected by evident and persistent asymmetric income distribution. The increasing relevance of this issue to development agendas sets the need for planning tools that can support the analysis of the long-term impacts of ...
Pedercini, Matteo, Qureshi, Muhammad Azeem   +1 more
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms of the effect of fertility policies on the labor-capital income gap. [PDF]

PLoS One
Cui W, Wan AW, Zheng Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Income Inequality Trends and their Challenges to Redistribution Policies in Japan

, 2007
This article is an overview of income inequality trends during the 1980s and 1990s and a discussion of their challenges to redistribution policies in Japan. The key results are summarized as follows.
Fukawa, Tetsuo, Oshio, Takashi
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