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. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …
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domain that depart from the income domain, and discusses its implementation in health system priority-setting decisions. We … estimates from the literature are unclear. Unlike the income-inequality literature, standard approaches in the health …-economics do not follow a ‘veil-of-ignorance’ approach and elicit mostly bivariate (income-related health) inequality aversion …
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-consistent personality and environment. We explain when stressors reduce income. We also explain under which conditions rising income does …
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We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …
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attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …
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This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...
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. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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and age distribution across countries in a fundamental way. In this paper we focus on the income consequences of these … changes for the global income distribution. Key in this respect are changes in the so-called demographic dividend associated … demographic dividend to income projections. Our findings are as follows. First, show that historically the impact of demography on …
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Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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-relocated neighbors, the RRZ population experienced a significant initial decrease in their wages and salaries, and in their total income … decreases in wages and salaries, and total income. There were no discernible impacts of the relocation on self-employment income …. In sum, we find strong evidence that the managed retreat program had identifiable adverse real effects on personal income …
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