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Income Inequality, In-Kind Benefits and Economic Growth: Studied Using a Modified Gini Index

Wennberg, Elias LU (2016) NEKH01 20161
Department of Economics
Abstract
A negative long-run relationship between inequality and growth has been found for a variety of inequality measures, but as these measures invariably ignore the pro-poor effect of in-kind redistribution, one may question the reliability of previous studies’ inequality-growth estimates. In this paper, I incorporate in-kind benefits into the Gini index and present new estimates of the inequality-growth impact for the period 1980―2007, in what is believed to be the first inequality-growth study of its kind. The results suggest that a negative relationship between inequality and growth is present both with and without in-kind benefits. The results are robust to changes in model specifications, standardization of the inequality variable, control... (More)
A negative long-run relationship between inequality and growth has been found for a variety of inequality measures, but as these measures invariably ignore the pro-poor effect of in-kind redistribution, one may question the reliability of previous studies’ inequality-growth estimates. In this paper, I incorporate in-kind benefits into the Gini index and present new estimates of the inequality-growth impact for the period 1980―2007, in what is believed to be the first inequality-growth study of its kind. The results suggest that a negative relationship between inequality and growth is present both with and without in-kind benefits. The results are robust to changes in model specifications, standardization of the inequality variable, control variable definitions and generally against removal of single observations. (Less)
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author
Wennberg, Elias LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKH01 20161
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Income Inequality, In-Kind Benefits, Growth, MGINI, Gini
language
English
id
8871890
date added to LUP
2016-05-11 14:31:19
date last changed
2016-05-11 14:31:19
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  abstract     = {{A negative long-run relationship between inequality and growth has been found for a variety of inequality measures, but as these measures invariably ignore the pro-poor effect of in-kind redistribution, one may question the reliability of previous studies’ inequality-growth estimates. In this paper, I incorporate in-kind benefits into the Gini index and present new estimates of the inequality-growth impact for the period 1980―2007, in what is believed to be the first inequality-growth study of its kind. The results suggest that a negative relationship between inequality and growth is present both with and without in-kind benefits. The results are robust to changes in model specifications, standardization of the inequality variable, control variable definitions and generally against removal of single observations.}},
  author       = {{Wennberg, Elias}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Income Inequality, In-Kind Benefits and Economic Growth: Studied Using a Modified Gini Index}},
  year         = {{2016}},
}