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Individuals’ socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this gradient may be uncontroversial, the same cannot be said about its explanation. In this paper, we extend the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels developed...
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The paper examines marketing patterns when interest and storage loss rates are greater in rural zones, representing informal sector storage usually on-farm, than in urban zones, representing formal sector storage off-farm. Empirical results indicate that divergences in interest and storage loss...
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, the new data of the World Values Survey, 2010-2014 were released, containing yet another enormous wealth of new data …
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yet another enormous wealth of new data, including on the Muslim world. We have chosen to concentrate on two phenomena …
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Nelson Mandela said, “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against White domination, and I have fought against Black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony...
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fallacy of identifying utility with wealth to be proved, for example, the article shows that “marginal utility” is equivalent …
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attitudes differs in terms of their perception of wealth, and in each group the relation between income and the perception of …
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In this paper we examine the role of intergenerational transfers in the wealth accumulation of Italian households …. Received transfers represent an important share of the net wealth held by households. Direct estimates referring to 2002 range … significant share considering the size of the denominator. Transfers are very concentrated, more than income and wealth, even when …
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The paper offers a broad overview of the topics addressed during the Bank of Italy's conference on Household wealth in … statistics on wealth, looks at the Bank of Italy's experience in this specific field, provides a brief synopsis of the research …
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The wealth distribution in the U.S. is more unequal, or skewed to the right, than either the income or earnings … may have a `capitalist spirit', I construct and simulate a model where some individuals accumulate wealth for its own sake … modifications, generates a skewness of wealth consistent with that observed in the U.S. economy. Furthermore, capitalist …
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