nep-ltv New Economics Papers
on Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty
Issue of 2025–08–11
five papers chosen by
Maximo Rossi, Universidad de la RepÃúºblica
  1. The long-run effects of Conditional Cash Transfers: The case of Bolsa Familia in Brazil By Laguinge, Luis; Gasparini, Leonardo; Neidhöfer, Guido
  2. Attitudes to income inequality and redistribution By Martin Brun; Xavier Ramos
  3. Gender inequality in expenditure: Great Britain 1978 to 2019 By Richard Blundell; Heidi Karjalainen; Valérie Lechene; Krishna Pendakur
  4. The t-statistic approach to inference for inequality indices: the issue of grouping variability By Nicolas Herault; Stephen P. Jenkins
  5. Why Higher Pay Leads to More Crime By Papps, Kerry L.
  1. By: Laguinge, Luis; Gasparini, Leonardo; Neidhöfer, Guido
    Abstract: Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become a key antipoverty policy in Latin America in the last 25 years. The ultimate goal of this kind of programs is to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty through the promotion of human capital accumulation of children in vulnerable households. In this paper, we explore this issue by estimating the long-run effects of the largest CCT in Latin America: the Brazilian Bolsa Familia. Through a combination of the two-stage-two-sample method and a difference-in-differences approach, we find evidence consistent with a positive long-run impact of Bolsa Familia among former beneficiaries. In particular, we find a significant positive effect on education and labor income, and a negative effect on the likelihood of being a current beneficiary of this social transfer.
    Keywords: Conditional cash transfers, long term effects, human capital formation, Bolsa Familia, Brazil, Latin America
    JEL: D04 I38 J24
    Date: 2025
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:zewdip:319892
  2. By: Martin Brun (Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research (FIT), Tampere University (TUNI), and Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis (EQUALITAS)); Xavier Ramos (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis (EQUALITAS), and IZA -Institute of Labor EconomicsAuthor-Name:)
    Abstract: We survey the literature on attitudes towards inequality and redistributive preferences. We focus on the effects of misperceptions, social preferences, and social identity. Recent contributions addressing these relationships have produced novel findings that are hardly covered in previous surveys. Before reviewing the empirical literature, we discuss how the theoretical literature has embedded in canonical models of social preferences the three issues we focus on in this review.
    Keywords: attitudes to inequality, preferences for redistribution, misperceptions, fairness concerns, inequality aversion, social identity
    JEL: D31 D63 D90 D91
    Date: 2025–08
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fit:wpaper:33
  3. By: Richard Blundell (Institute for Fiscal Studies); Heidi Karjalainen (Institute for Fiscal Studies); Valérie Lechene (Institute for Fiscal Studies); Krishna Pendakur (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
    Date: 2025–07–23
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ifs:ifsewp:25/26
  4. By: Nicolas Herault (Bordeaux School of Economics); Stephen P. Jenkins (LSE)
    Abstract: Ibragimov, Kattuman, and Skrobotov (Econometric Reviews, 2025) propose a "t-statistic" approach to inference for inequality indices building on results provided by Ibragimov and Muller (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2010), and they and Midoes and de Crombrugghe (Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023) evaluate its performance. We highlight a feature of the t-statistic approach - "grouping variability" - that has been understudied to date, showing how this complicates inference for inequality indices.
    Keywords: Inequality, t-statistic inference approach, asymptotic inference, grouping variability
    JEL: C14 C46 C81 D31
    Date: 2025–08
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:inq:inqwps:ecineq2025-686
  5. By: Papps, Kerry L. (University of Bradford)
    Abstract: The effects on criminal behaviour of raising the minimum wage for those aged 25 and over in the United Kingdom are analysed, using data on police stop and search activities. A 1% increase in the minimum wage raises the fraction of people stopped by the police by 2.96%, the fraction of people caught with an incriminating item by 1.43%, and the fraction of people arrested as a consequence by 1.27%. This effect is almost entirely driven by drug searches made outside business hours, suggesting that the minimum wage raises crime principally by raising disposable income – and drug consumption – among workers.
    Keywords: stop and search, crime, minimum wage
    JEL: K42 J22 J31
    Date: 2025–07
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17989
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