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The Effect of Growth and Inequality in Incomes on Health Inequality: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the European Panel

Ourti, Tom Van; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Koolman, Xander - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … inequality, health inequality, income elasticity of health, Europe. Classification-JEL: D30, D31, I10, I12. …

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The Health Penalty of China's Rapid Urbanization

Poel, E. Van de; O'Donnell, O.; Doorslaer, E. Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is not obvious. It is, however, highly pertinent to the human welfare consequences of development. This paper uses community and individual level longitudinal data from the China...

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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient due to Grouping

Ourti, Tom Van; Clarke, Philip - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order correction term is obtained from studying the estimator of the Gini index within a measurement error framework. In addition, it reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining...

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Subjective Questions to Measure Welfare and Well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...

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Consistency, Monotonicity and Implementation of Egalitarian Shapley Values

Brink, René van den; Funaki, Yukihiko; Ju, Yuan - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

One of the main issues in economics is the trade-off between marginalism and egalitarianism. In the context of cooperative games this trade-off can be framed as one of choosing to allocate according to the Shapley value or the equal division solution. In this paper we provide tools that make it...

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Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil

Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generates those concerns ? ]s it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that the desire for greater public safety has a positive own-income effect, but a negative neighborhood-...

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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...

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Does the Wage Tax System cause Budget Deficits?

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We find support for the hypothesis that...

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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...

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Do Early Life and Contemporaneous Macro-conditions explain Health at Older Ages?

Portrait, France; Alessie, Rob; Deeg, Dorly - Tinbergen Institute

The paper presents an approach which thoroughly assesses the role of early life and contemporaneous macro-conditions in explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to infectious diseases and economic conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the...

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