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Sources of Welfare Disparities across and within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the 2002-03 Household Budget Survey

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Skoufias, Emmanuel () (The World Bank)
Katayama, Roy (The World Bank)
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Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. This paper uses Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally representative household survey data (2002-03 Household Budget Survey). The analysis finds that household attributes account for most of the welfare differences between urban and rural areas within regions. However, comparing the lagging Northeast region with the leading Southeast region, differences in returns to attributes account for a large part of the welfare disparities, in particular in metropolitan areas, supporting the presence of agglomeration effects in booming areas.

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 4803.

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Date of creation: 02 Feb 2009
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Keywords: Brazil; Leading and Lagging Regions; Welfare; Poverty; Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare
O15 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
O18 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
R10 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General
R23 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
R58 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Policy

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