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inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality …. The model can thus help discriminate between different competing explanations of the recent rise in US wage inequality … correlation between wage inequality and mobility. Public subsidies to education reduce inequality, but the effect on mobility is …
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here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of … considerable debate, and there was an inverse relationship between material inequality and stature. The paper also supports a bio …
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Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … job loss and those who do not reveals generally increasing entry rates through the wealth distribution for both groups … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...
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Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...
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We examine a "Rotten Kid" model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intention-based rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually unkind...
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use real wages. To understand the implications of this finding for changes in well-being inequality I use a simple general … increase in well-being inequality even if the increase in real wage inequality is limited. Alternatively, it is possible that … that the increase in well-being inequality between 1980 and 2000 is smaller than the increase in nominal wage inequality. …
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This paper reviews the history of executive compensation disclosure and other government policies affecting CEO pay, and as well surveys the literature on the effects of these policies. Disclosure has increased nearly uniformly since 1933. A number of other regulations, including special taxes...
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