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study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing …This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three …-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due …
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The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects undergo a shift in their social status without considerable...
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Recent work on social status led to derivation of a new continuous distribution based on the exponential. The new variate, termed the ring(2)-exponential, in turn leads to derivation of two closely-related new families of continuous distributions, which we call the mirrorexponential and the...
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This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...
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This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …
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This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the … association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in the size of the area. We find a … negative relationship between well-being and neighbors' income in the county of residence, but the opposite at the ZIP code …
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indirect path, parents and peers also influence educational outcomes directly. Policy measures that operate on parental …
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This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...
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education and IQ are less likely to marry, and thus have less income through their husbands. To identify personality traits, I …
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We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...
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