Luis F Lopez-Calva
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 127035 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Luis F Lopez-Calva |
| PRENOMES | Luis F |
| SOBRENOME | Lopez-Calva |
| ASSINATURA | LOPEZ-CALVA L F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | World Bank |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 146 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Within-country poverty convergence
The potential effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on learnings
The arithmetics and politics of domestic resource mobilization for poverty eradication
Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation
This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem from a combination of considerable positive performance among the poorest muni…
Economic Inequality and Social Progress
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Income Inequality and Violent Crime
The goal of this paper is to examine the effect of inequality on crime rates in a unique context, Mexico's drug war. The analysis exploits an original dataset containing inequality and crime statistics on more than 2000 Mexican municipalities over a 20-year period. To uncover the causal effect of inequality on crime, we use an instrumental variable for the Gini coefficient that combines the initial income distribution at the municipality level wi…
Pro-Growth Equity
Growth is an important channel for poverty reduction. Policies to make growth more "inclusive" have permeated the development debate and "pro-poor growth" has been the subject of a wide range of papers in the literature, including issues related to measurement, modeling, and policy. However, the analytical and particularly empirical literature to support the idea that equity-enhancing policies have a positive effect on growth is more scarce and l…
Income inequality and violent crime
Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People
This paper uses experimental panel data for Mexico from 1997 to 2000 in order to test assumptions on the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on child labor and school attendance, adding to the literature by emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the CCT program, PROGRESA (later on known as OPORTUNIDADES), we investigate the interaction between child labor, education and indigenous households.…
A Long-Term Perspective on Inequality and Human Development in Latin America
Latin America has always been seen as a region with inherently high levels of inequality. After devoting his time and scientific talent to explore the new world in the early nineteenth century, Ale
Income and Beyond
The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets
Adopted on September 8, 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "...[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger..." Each country committed to achieve the stated goal, regardless of their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents…
Stability and Vulnerability of the Latin American Middle Class
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short-term fluctuation
Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 16 of the 17 countries where there are comparable data, and the change was statistically significant for all of them. Existing studies point to two main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and progressive government transfers. Available evidence suggests that it is the skill premium -…
Public Finance and Social Protection System Reforms in M exico
M exico needs a proposal to integrate reforms into the social protection system as an indispensable factor for social cohesion with holistic fiscal reforms that create and nurture viability in the long term and improve the country's competitiveness. There is also a need for reforms that seek to break through the prevailing economic stagnation and provide the nation with medium‐ and long‐term development opportunities. Specifically, it needs a pro…
A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class
Exiting Belindia? Lesson from the Recent Decline in Income Inequality in Brazil
After decades of persistent disparities, inequality in Brazil has fallen steadily over the last fifteen years. This robust rate of decline has surpassed the pace of the Latin American region as a whole, and is taking place as inequality rises in several rapid-growth emerging economies in other regions. This document examines the recent trend in income inequality in Brazil, its key policy drivers and some of the challenges ahead. It aims at captur…
Public Finance and Social Protection System Reforms in Mexico
Mexico needs a proposal to integrate reforms into the social protection system as an indispensable factor for social cohesion with holistic fiscal reforms that create and nurture viability in the long term and improve the country's competitiveness. There is also a need for reforms that seek to break through the prevailing economic stagnation and provide the nation with medium‐ and long‐term development opportunities. Specifically, it needs a prop…
Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s
A Vulnerability Approach to the Definition of the Middle Class
Measurement of the middle class has recently come to the center of policy debate in middle-income countries as they search for the potential engines of growth and good governance. This debate assumes, first, that there is a meaningful definition of class, and second, that thresholds that define relatively homogeneous groups in terms of pre-determined sociological characteristics can be found empirically. This paper aims at proposing a view of the…
Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. This paper investigates the relation between class (measured by position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. The analysis finds that both a continuous measure of income and categorical measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and …
Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America
A Household-Based Distribution-Sensitive Human Development Index
Measuring the Distribution of Human Development
The Human Development Index (HDI) improves upon per‐capita Gross Domestic Product as an indicator of development by incorporating information on health and education. However, like its predecessor, it fails to account for the inequality with which the benefits of development are distributed among the population. Subsequent work by Anand and Sen (1993) and Hicks (1997 Hicks, DA. 1997. ‘The inequality‐adjusted Human Development Index: a constructiv…
Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s
Income inequality and violent crime
A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class
A Household-Based Distribution-Sensitive Human Development Index
The potential effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on learnings
The arithmetics and politics of domestic resource mobilization for poverty eradication
Public Finance and Social Protection System Reforms in Mexico
Mexico needs a proposal to integrate reforms into the social protection system as an indispensable factor for social cohesion with holistic fiscal reforms that create and nurture viability in the long term and improve the country's competitiveness. There is also a need for reforms that seek to break through the prevailing economic stagnation and provide the nation with medium‐ and long‐term development opportunities. Specifically, it needs a prop…
Measuring the Distribution of Human Development
The Human Development Index (HDI) improves upon per‐capita Gross Domestic Product as an indicator of development by incorporating information on health and education. However, like its predecessor, it fails to account for the inequality with which the benefits of development are distributed among the population. Subsequent work by Anand and Sen (1993) and Hicks (1997 Hicks, DA. 1997. ‘The inequality‐adjusted Human Development Index: a constructiv…
A Vulnerability Approach to the Definition of the Middle Class
Measurement of the middle class has recently come to the center of policy debate in middle-income countries as they search for the potential engines of growth and good governance. This debate assumes, first, that there is a meaningful definition of class, and second, that thresholds that define relatively homogeneous groups in terms of pre-determined sociological characteristics can be found empirically. This paper aims at proposing a view of the…
Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. This paper investigates the relation between class (measured by position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. The analysis finds that both a continuous measure of income and categorical measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and …
Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America
A Household-Based Distribution-Sensitive Human Development Index
Exiting Belindia? Lesson from the Recent Decline in Income Inequality in Brazil
After decades of persistent disparities, inequality in Brazil has fallen steadily over the last fifteen years. This robust rate of decline has surpassed the pace of the Latin American region as a whole, and is taking place as inequality rises in several rapid-growth emerging economies in other regions. This document examines the recent trend in income inequality in Brazil, its key policy drivers and some of the challenges ahead. It aims at captur…
Public Finance and Social Protection System Reforms in Mexico
Mexico needs a proposal to integrate reforms into the social protection system as an indispensable factor for social cohesion with holistic fiscal reforms that create and nurture viability in the long term and improve the country's competitiveness. There is also a need for reforms that seek to break through the prevailing economic stagnation and provide the nation with medium‐ and long‐term development opportunities. Specifically, it needs a prop…
Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s
Income and Beyond
The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets
Adopted on September 8, 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "...[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger..." Each country committed to achieve the stated goal, regardless of their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents…
Stability and Vulnerability of the Latin American Middle Class
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short-term fluctuation
Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 16 of the 17 countries where there are comparable data, and the change was statistically significant for all of them. Existing studies point to two main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and progressive government transfers. Available evidence suggests that it is the skill premium -…
Public Finance and Social Protection System Reforms in M exico
M exico needs a proposal to integrate reforms into the social protection system as an indispensable factor for social cohesion with holistic fiscal reforms that create and nurture viability in the long term and improve the country's competitiveness. There is also a need for reforms that seek to break through the prevailing economic stagnation and provide the nation with medium‐ and long‐term development opportunities. Specifically, it needs a pro…
A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class
Exploring the Differential Impact of Public Interventions on Indigenous People
This paper uses experimental panel data for Mexico from 1997 to 2000 in order to test assumptions on the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on child labor and school attendance, adding to the literature by emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the CCT program, PROGRESA (later on known as OPORTUNIDADES), we investigate the interaction between child labor, education and indigenous households.…
A Long-Term Perspective on Inequality and Human Development in Latin America
Latin America has always been seen as a region with inherently high levels of inequality. After devoting his time and scientific talent to explore the new world in the early nineteenth century, Ale
Income Inequality and Violent Crime
The goal of this paper is to examine the effect of inequality on crime rates in a unique context, Mexico's drug war. The analysis exploits an original dataset containing inequality and crime statistics on more than 2000 Mexican municipalities over a 20-year period. To uncover the causal effect of inequality on crime, we use an instrumental variable for the Gini coefficient that combines the initial income distribution at the municipality level wi…
Pro-Growth Equity
Growth is an important channel for poverty reduction. Policies to make growth more "inclusive" have permeated the development debate and "pro-poor growth" has been the subject of a wide range of papers in the literature, including issues related to measurement, modeling, and policy. However, the analytical and particularly empirical literature to support the idea that equity-enhancing policies have a positive effect on growth is more scarce and l…
Income inequality and violent crime
Economic Inequality and Social Progress
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation
This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem from a combination of considerable positive performance among the poorest muni…
The arithmetics and politics of domestic resource mobilization for poverty eradication
Within-country poverty convergence
The potential effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on learnings
Economics (22 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (20 obras) · Economic growth (17 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Development economics (12 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (11 obras) · Inequality (10 obras) · Poverty (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras)