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neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …
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inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …
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in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a …
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greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility …'s (1997) finding of a basically insignificant effect of marital sorting on inequality, we find that increased marital sorting … will significantly increase income inequality. Three factors are central to our findings: a negative correlation between …
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the effects of two different constitutions (commitment or no commitment in tax policy), as well as income inequality …
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The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work experience and current hours of work. In addition, these...
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This Paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …
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The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...
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Models to explain the chances of economic activity, employment and full-time work in a national cross-section of British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status differentials are minor once the presence of dependent children...
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