Sources of welfare disparities across and within regions of Brazil
Subtitle: evidence from the 2002-03 household budget survey
By: Emmanuel Skoufias, Roy Katayama.
Contributors: Katayama, Roy.; World Bank.
Series: Policy research working paper -- 4803; Policy research working papers (Online) -- 4803.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Poverty -- Brazil -- Regional disparities; Income distribution -- Brazil -- Regional disparities; Household surveys -- Brazil
Description: "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. "--World Bank web site.
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