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Beyond natural sterility, there are two main types of childlessness: one driven by poverty and another by the high opportunity cost to child-rearing. We argue that taking childlessness and its causes into account matters for assessing the impact of development policies on fertility. We measure...
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live in the same community but segregate by schooling. When inequality is smaller, we observe the typical sorting by income … across communities. The effect of inequality on the quality of public schools depends on the relative size of the housing … market of each community. When inequality increases, if the housing conditions of the community in which rich and poor …
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We study the optimal dynamics of an AK economy where population is uniformly distributed along the unit circle. Locations only differ in initial capital endowments. Despite constant returns to capital, we prove that transition dynamics will set in. In particular, we prove that the...
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Since Collier and Hoeffler (1998, 2004), it has been supported that inequality, measured at national level, does not … inequality in localized conflicts. We argue that previous findings might be biased by the myopic nature of cross-country analysis …. Consistently with the model, Probit estimations indicate that income inequality measured at municipal level was significant in …
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We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases...
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This paper provides an additional channel through which inequality may influence growth, when labor migration is taken …, 2004) shows that a brain drain can have a positive impact only when it is associated with low inequality (in income or …
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observe a wide variation in the mix of public and private funding of education. In addition, countries with high inequality … with high inequality exhibit more private education expenditures since rich people opt out of the public system. In non …
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, on global efficiency and cross-country inequality in football. I built a micro-founded model endogenizing migration … decisions, inequality and training; I estimated its structural parameters; and I used numerical simulations to compare actual … by 20% (ii) increased cross-leagues inequality in performance by 25% in terms of output, and (iii) decreased inequality …
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European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to … dedicated to the politics of inequality on the one hand, to political inequalities on the other hand. …
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This paper provides evidence of the changing attitudes to inequality during transition to the market in Poland. Using … repeated cross-sections of the population, it identifies a structural break in the relationship between income inequality and … satisfaction. Whereas in the first stage of the transition process, an increase in income inequality was interpreted by the …
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