Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "JEL Classification Number: D31"

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    • A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures 
      Foster, James E. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which ...
    • Can Micro-Credit Bring Development? 
      Ahlin, Christian; Jiang, Neville (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      We examine the long-run effects of micro-credit on development in an occupational choice model very similar to Banerjee and Newman (JPE, 1993). Micro-credit is modeled as a pure improvement in the credit market that opens ...
    • Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism 
      Trannoy, Alain; Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      Social welfare dominance criteria based on critical-level generalized utilitarian social welfare functions are investigated. An analogue of a generalized Lorenz curve called a generalized concentration curve is introduced. ...