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Advancing social mobility research: Where to start
Innovation in academic investigation and policy response is critical to addressing global challenges...
Social mobility labour market economics InequalityWorking Paper
Consolidating behavioural economics and rational choice theory: Insights from inequality researchUsing illustrations from research on inequality, this paper offers evidence on the strengths of ‘behavioural synthesis’, i.e. the reconciliation between neoclassical and behavioural economics...
Inequality Behavioral economics BehaviourBlog
Why is inequality in South Africa higher than in Germany?: Explaining income distributions with ‘decompositions’
The understanding of inequality requires the analysis of changes in income distributions across countries and over time as well as the identification of its drivers...
Economic inequality Income inequality Methodology (Economics)Journal Article
Reflections on the Ethics of Social ExperimentationPart of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics
Methodology (Economics) Experimental design Field experimentsWorking Paper
Reflections on the Ethics of Social ExperimentationSocial scientists are increasingly engaging in experimental research projects of importance for public policy in developing areas...
Methodology (Economics) Experimental design Qualitative researchBlog
Focus on Poverty: Big Data is no Shortcut to Equality
27 May 2014 Roger Williamson For a school prize in the 1960s, I insisted on having a book on the revolution taking place in traditional social life and the embrace of new trends...
Economic surveys Equality and inequality Methodology (Economics)Blog
From the Editor's Desk (May 2014)
28 May 2014 Tony Addison One indispensible part of modern life is the mobile phone. The communications revolution continues to surprise almost everyone—including those most directly involved in rolling out the new technology...
Ecology Food security Methodology (Economics)Blog
Dear Nicholas Kristof, We Are Here, Too!
21 February 2014 Rachel M. Gisselquist Earlier this month, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a scathing critique of the role of academics in public debate...
Methodology (Economics) Political science Research institutesWorking Paper
Using Case Studies to Explore the External Validity of ‘Complex’ Development InterventionsRising standards for accurately inferring the impact of development projects has not been matched by equivalently rigorous procedures for guiding decisions about whether and how similar results might be expected elsewhere...
Economic development Methodology (Economics)Journal Article
Using Case Studies to Explore the External Validity of ‘Complex’ Development InterventionsRising standards for accurately inferring the impact of development projects has not been matched by equivalently rigorous procedures for guiding decisions about whether and how similar results might be expected elsewhere...
Economic development Methodology (Economics)Blog
From the Editor's Desk (February 2013) Tony Addison As the snow continues to lie deep across Helsinki, UNU-WIDER is putting the last touches to the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which takes place at Sida in Stockholm on 13 March...
Industrialization Econometric models (Economic development) ChildrenWorking Paper
Measuring Economic InsecurityWe provide an axiomatic treatment of the measurement of economic insecurity, assuming that individual insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past...
Methodology (Economics) Index numbers (Economics) WealthBlog
Interview with David Richards – How to Measure Human Development?21 September 2012 The intricate dynamic between foreign aid to Africa, democratic transitions and consolidation is the topic of a series of research papers being published under the ReCom Governance & Fragility theme ...
Economic development Poverty measurement Methodology (Economics)Working Paper
Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1968–2008This paper describes the methodology of a longitudinal multi-generational study in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro from 1968 to 2008...
Methodology (Economics) Housing Internal migrationBook Chapter
Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1968–2008From the book: Urbanization and Development
Methodology (Economics) Housing Internal migrationPolicy Brief
Measuring Human Well-beingThis Policy Brief is an outcome of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Social Development Indicators'...
Economic development Methodology (Economics) Equality and inequality