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Working Paper 2022-628 Abstract Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low-middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low

Working Paper 2022-627 Abstract Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to

Working Paper 2022-626 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be

Working Paper 2022-625 Abstract This work presents a framework to jointly study individuals’ heterogeneity in terms of their capital and

Working Paper 2022-624 Abstract This paper studies the gender pension savings gap in a system based on individual retirement accounts

Working Paper 2022-623 Abstract Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations?

Working Paper 2022-622 Abstract Despite a vast literature documenting climate change negative effects on various socio-economic outcomes, surprisingly hardly any

Working Paper 2022-621 Abstract The paper proposes a framework to assess fairness in multidimensional distributions while respecting individual preferences. We

Working Paper 2022-620 Abstract We estimate, for the first time, long-run trends in intergenerational economic mobility for a multitude of

Working Paper 2022-619 Abstract Global eradication of extreme poverty requires absolute convergence of poverty rates worldwide towards zero. Using data

Working Paper 2022-618 Abstract Natural Gini decomposition (Rao, V. M., 1969, J R Stat Soc Ser A, 132:418–425) and marginal