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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774

Burnard, Trevor - 2017

This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose...

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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …

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Growth, Distribution and Demography : Some Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1997

If we have learned anything from the recent outpouring of empirical growth equations is that life is far too complex to expect unconditional' convergence among all countries and at" all times. This fact motivates two questions. First, why has it taken economists so long to learn" the same lesson...

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Latin American Growth-Inequality Trade-Offs : The Impact of Insurgence and Independence

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010

Did independence push Latin America down a growth-inequality trade-off? During the late colonial decades, the region completed two centuries of growth unmatched anywhere and inequality reached spectacular heights. During the half century after insurgency and independence, inequality fell steeply...

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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Rosés, Joan R. - 2007

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...

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Grandpa and the Snapper : the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children

Deaton, Angus - 2013

Elderly Americans who live with people under age 18 have lower life evaluations than those who do not. They also experience worse emotional outcomes, including less happiness and enjoyment, and more stress, worry, and anger. In part, these negative outcomes come from selection into living with a...

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Mortality Rates by College Degree Before and During COVID-19

Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

It is now established that mortality and excess mortality from COVID-19 differed across racial and ethnic groups in 2020. Less is known about educational differences in mortality during the pandemic. We examine mortality rates by BA status within sex, age, and race/ethnic groups comparing 2020...

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The Great Divide : Education, Despair and Death

Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Deaths of despair, morbidity and emotional distress continue to rise in the US. The increases are largely borne by those without a four-year college degree--the majority of American adults. For many less-educated Americans, the economy and society are no longer providing the basis for a good...

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Measuring ancient inequality

Milanovic, Branko - 2007

"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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Mortality, Income, and Income Inequality Over Time in Britain and the United States

Deaton, Angus - 2001

We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in income inequality provide plausible explanations. Britain and the US had different patterns of income growth but similar patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality...

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