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

Emmanuel Skoufias and Roy Katayama
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No 4803, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Brazil; Leading and Lagging Regions; Welfare; Poverty; Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 O15 O18 R10 R23 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2009-02-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev, nep-geo and nep-lab
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