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Crime, Inequality and Subsidized Housing: Evidence from South Africa
Manea, Roxana; Piraino, Patrizio; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581977
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The Impact of Inequality on the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC Model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377436
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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production
Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008
This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264348
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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291889
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013
The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328727
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Top Lights - Bright Cities and their Contribution to Economic Development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018102
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Roots of Inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023
Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning … differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across societies …. The roots of income inequality within the US population provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis. It suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377470
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Ethnic Geography: Measurement and Evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777585
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Crime, Inequality and Subsidized Housing : Evidence from South Africa
Manea, Roxana; Piraino, Patrizio; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243242
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Should Income Inequality be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016
We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584914