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Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two ...
For advanced courses in economic analysis, this book presents the economic theory of consumer behavior, focusing on the applications of the theory to ...
An overview of the saving and consumption patterns of households...
An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections...
A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy
Using data from several countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Thailand, this book analyzes household survey data from devel...
A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shor...
An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend...
A Critical Look at Thirty Years of the World Development Report
'This volume not only offers an invaluable retrospective of the World Bank's best thinking on development but also has the analytical caliber and poli...
Estimating Price Elasticities from Cross-sectional Data
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Monograph on methodologycal issues involved in analysing consumer behaviour and in projection of consumer demand in the UK - assesses several economic...
Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its author, Sir Angus Deaton, recipien...
People whose family income was less than $5,000 in 1980 could expect to live about 25 percent fewer years than people whose family income was greater ...
I present a model of mortality and income that integrates the 'gradient, ' the negative relationship between income and mortality, with the Wilkinson ...
In September 2001, staff from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund met with the objective of strengthening collaboration between the two...
Microeconometric Analysis for Development Policy
Presenting a comprehensive introduction to the study of consumption and saving using theoretical models based on the standard microeconomic foundation...
Theory and Practical Guidelines
Does it Make Sense?
This Working Paper reviews a number of aspects of the collection and use of panel data from households in developing countries. Sampling issues are di...
We examine the social pension in South Africa, where large cash sumsĂľabout twice the median per capita income of African householdsĂľare paid to peop...
Adults, Children, and Gender
Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequalit...
Extensions and Indonesian Results
A Study of Cocoa and Coffee Production in CĂ´te D'Ivoire
This paper is concerned with two related questions, first, what determines coffee and cocoa yields, and second, how should the government determine th...
Pakistan, like many LDCs, derives most of government revenue from indirect taxation. However, the system of taxes and subsidies has grown up piecemeal...
This paper is broadly concerned with the living standards of older people in two contrasting developing countries, Cote d'Ivoire and Thailand. We use ...
In the analysis of tax reform, when equity is traded off against efficiency, the measurement of the latter requires us to know how tax- induced price ...
Education, Despair and Death
Deaths of despair, morbidity and emotional distress continue to rise in the US. The increases are largely borne by those without a four-year college d...