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 …

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. …

Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … investment can have a positive effect on growth that goes beyond the effect of the capital stock because of economies of scale … between infrastructure and economic growth. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on …

. Further, while during earlier parts of our sample both a slowdown in consumption and investment growth contribute to a … reduction of GDP growth, during later parts, only the investment reaction contributes to the GDP slowdown. A variance … to later parts of the sample, while the corresponding decomposition for investment growth reveals an increase in the role …

inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors … in upper primary schools being associated with nuclear residential habits and equal partition of inheritance. The effect …

The Carnegie effect (Holtz-Eakin, Joualfaian and Rosen, 1993) refers to the idea that inherited wealth harms recipients …

find that the tax–transfer scheme positively affects growth while simultaneously reducing wealth inequality in the economy … with the Arrow/Romer approach to endogenous growth to analyze the interaction of risk, growth, and inequality, the latter …. Major results include that growth, inequality, and risk are positively related in our model, but we also identify a hump …

The effect of a permanent change of inflation on the distribution of wealth is analyzed in a general equilibrium OLG … of inflation results in a lower stock market participation rate; in addition, the distribution of wealth becomes more …