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European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to "natural differences" as some others did after them in the 19th or 20th centuries. Drawing from recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social sciences and in...
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This paper analyses the impact of health, pension systems and longevity on savings. It uses a simple life-cycle model embodying social transfers (health care and pension expenditures) and changes in longevity to determine the level of household savings. From this model, we derived an econometric...
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cause of development. Furthermore, the models suggest that policies which increase x cost per child, reduce the cost of … education, stimulate accumulation of human capital, and encourage female activity raise the probability of development and …
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Les sociétés égalitaires sont-elles en meilleure santé ? Plusieurs études récentes ont mis en évidence à partir de données agrégées une corrélation entre inégalités de revenu et espérance de vie. Cet article explore à partir de données de mortalité individuelles françaises les...
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Survey data reveals that the pace of increase in height stature experienced by successive cohorts born in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana during the late colonial period (1925–1960) is almost as high as the pace observed in France and Great Britain during the period 1875 to 1975, even when correcting...
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Après avoir relevé les divers défis affectant la régulation des industries de réseau et discuté de la pertinence des modèles disséminés par les institutions financières des pays en voie de développement, l'ouvrage met en lumière les inquiétudes des acteurs de l'industrie et les...
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development provide the basis for trade. When preferences exhibit risk vulnerability as defined by Gollier and Pratt [1996 …], financial development reduces individuals’ risk aversion. Hence, international differences in financial development can induce …
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