Using polling data for 31,869 households in 38 countries, and allowing for country effects, the authors show that the poor are more likely than the rich to mention inflation as a top national concern. This result survives several robustness checks. Also, direct measures of improvements in well-being for the poor - the change in their share of national income, the percentage decline in poverty, and the percentage change in the real minimum wage - are...
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2000/05/31
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS2335
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2010/07/01
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Inflation and the poor
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inflation
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