<i>IS THE KUZNETS CURVE STILL ALIVE? EVIDENCE FROM ITALIAN HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS, 1881–1961</i>

Rossi, Nicola; Toniolo, Gianni; Vecchi, Giovanni

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“…Secondly, a high per capita calorie availability is consistent with the presence of a sizable part of the population trying to make ends meet, provided a substantial degree of income inequality can be assumed. This is precisely the finding of Rossi, Toniolo and Vecchi (2001): in 1881 about 7 per cent of total income accrued to the bottom 20 percent of the population, as opposed to 53 per cent accruing to the top 20 percent.…”

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Nutrition and growth in Italy, 1861–1911: What macroeconomic data hide

Vecchi

Coppola

2006

Explorations in Economic History

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Abstract:We investigate how nutritional status responded to economic growth in Italy during 1861-1911. By combining household-level data on food consumption with population censuses , we estimate that the incidence of undernutrition decreased by about 10-15 percent between 1881 and 1901. Consumption of calories responded elastically to income changes, although declining with the level of household income: on average, income elasticity of calories in 1901 was in the range of 0.3-0.6. Malnutrition, defined as the inadequate intake of macro-and micro-nutritients, was reduced. Overall, our findings do not support the pessimists' view, ubiquitous in the Italian literature. On the contrary, the early phase of Italian industrialization was beneficial to the nutritional status of the bulk of the population, and even more so for the poorest among the poor.

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“…******** Between 1881 and 1901 the real GDP per head increased by 18 percent; during the same period, the inequality in the distribution of total family expenses diminished (Rossi et al (2001)). A process of growth not sterilized by increases in inequality must imply a reduction in absolute poverty; this is algebraically certain.…”

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Nutrition and growth in Italy, 1861–1911: What macroeconomic data hide

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2006

Explorations in Economic History

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“…A good overview of most of the historical work on income inequality can be found in Milanovic, Lindert and Williamson (2007), and at the Global Income and Prices website at UC Davis. 3 Additional recent work has been done, for example, by Bertola et al (2009) for parts of South America, Rossi et al (2001) for Italy, Bergson (1984) for the Soviet Union, and Soltow and van Zanden (1998a) for the netherlands.…”

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Blum²

2014

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“…Recent historical literature has challenged this venerable hypothesis (Lindert 2000;Rossi et al 2001;Milanovic et al 2007). In the case of Spain, inequality over time suggests an inverted W rather than the Kuznetsian inverted U.…”

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“…40 Contrary to the usual assumption of 38 Without taking into account the massive work produced by Atkinson, Piketty, Saez and their associates, as they concentrate on top income shares. 39 Data on Gini coefficients for OECD countries come from WIDER and Deininger and Squire (1996, updated) completed with Flora (1983) and Morrisson (2000) for Denmark and Norway; Rossi, Toniolo and Vecchi (2001) for Italy; Lindert (2000) for the USA; Lindert (2000) and Williamson (1985) high and enduring inequality in Latin America since the colonial times, an upward trend up to the 1960s brought inequality to the high plateau where it stabilised for the rest of the twentieth century. Spain and Latin America followed similar patterns until the mid 1950s, when Spain shifted away to converge towards OECD inequality levels.…”

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Inequality, poverty and the Kuznets curve in Spain, 1850-2000

Escosura

2008

European Review of Economic History

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Economic rather than political forces appear to dominate inequality trends in Spain. Inequality evolution fits a Kuznets curve. Wars increased inequality but had non-permanent effects, while progressive taxation had no impact until 1980, at odds with Atkinson, Piketty, Saez and associates' findings. A substantial fall in absolute poverty resulted from growth but also from inequality reduction in the interwar period and the late 1950s. Rising inequality and extreme poverty are not found at the roots of the Spanish Civil War. Between the mid 1950s and 1974, inequality contraction and absolute poverty eradication represented a major departure from Latin America's performance while matching the OECD's.

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IS THE KUZNETS CURVE STILL ALIVE? EVIDENCE FROM ITALIAN HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS, 1881–1961

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Nutrition and growth in Italy, 1861–1911: What macroeconomic data hide

Nutrition and growth in Italy, 1861–1911: What macroeconomic data hide

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Inequality, poverty and the Kuznets curve in Spain, 1850-2000

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