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Testing household-specific explanations for the inverse productivity relationship
(2007)
The inverse relationship between land productivity and farm size is an old and puzzling empirical regularity. Most explanations for this relationship rely on market imperfections that jointly determine the farm size and ...
Home Alone: Impacts of a Non-contributory Pension Program (BPC) on Household Composition
(2020-03-31)
This dissertation aims to identify a possible effect of Brazilian non-contributory pension (BPC) on elderly household composition. We explored the discontinuity of BPC pensioners density at age 65 generated by the minimum ...
Household-Based Clientelism: Brokers’ Allocation of Temporary Public Works Programs in Argentina
(Springer, 2019-09)
This paper argues that political brokers pay particular attention to household size, and the age distribution of its members, when allocating scarce indivisible social benefits. Because people usually share their income ...
Why hasn’t inequality changed in Chile since 1990?
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants
on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order to answer the
question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The
methodology ...
The formation of female-headed households in poor urban sectors in Colima, Mexico: a five-case analysis
(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2009)