Showing papers by "World Institute for Development Economics Research published in 1998"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put together evidence from analysis of routinely collected data on changes in Russian mortality and found that psychological stress caused by the shock of an abrupt and severe economic transition is likely to have played a major role mediated in part by the adverse health effects of excessive alcohol consumption.
214 citations
01 Mar 1998
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for carrying out statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures, and carry out comparisons of the living standards of pensioners across countries and over time.
Abstract: Conclusions about poverty and the distribution of incomes are typically based on information obtained from sample surveys. However, sample surveys are subject to sampling and non-sampling errors. Statistical inference allows us to deal with sampling errors. In this paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for carrying out statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures. We analyse poverty and income inequality among pensioners in Hungary, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom. We carry out comparisons of the living standards of pensioners across countries and over time. Our results have far-reaching policy implications for the reforms of public pension systems currently under way.
6 citations
01 Mar 1998
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse poverty and income inequality among pensioners in Hungary before the introduction of pension reforms and demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures when sample survey data are used.
Abstract: In 1998 Hungary embarked on a course of comprehensive pension reform The reforms are likely to change the distribution of incomes of future generations The purpose of this paper is two-fold From a policy point of view, we analyse poverty and income inequality among pensioners in Hungary before the introduction of pension reforms We find that the old system was expensive but that it provided effective - albeit not efficient - poverty relief From a methodological point of view, we demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures when sample survey data are used
2 citations
01 Mar 1998