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health, and fairness of pay. … variability therefore uncovers a mechanism of how perceptions of unfairness can adversely affect cardiovascular health. We further … test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. Complementary to our …
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There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …
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identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …
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We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...
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When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
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In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …
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end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously … public good experiments, we find that contributions are increasing over time even in the absence of punishment possibilities …. Inequality and group income are positively correlated for poor groups, but negatively correlated for rich groups. There is very …
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inequality: Thus there is a new approach for explaining Piketty's historical findings of a medium term rise of the capital income …
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find inequality has increased post democracy in Nigeria, more so among women than men. …
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Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … sensitivity analysis indicates that virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when moving from money income to extended … measured inequality is insensitive to the correlation between money and household production income. The practical importance …
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