The Macroeconomic Consequences of Poverty and Inequality

This dissertation examines the macroeconomic effects of poverty and inequality. The second chapter considers the effect of poverty and subsistence consumption constraints on economic growth in a two-sector occupational choice model. I find that in the presence of risk taking, subsistence consumption...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, Jeffrey
Other Authors: Chakraborty, Shankha
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18330