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undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent …, which gives priority to the worst off in realized terms, we then examine the compensation for involuntary childlessness/parenthood …) parents, and may also, under some reference fertility levels, involve positive childlessness allowances. Our results are …
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Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …
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Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality …This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …
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distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes … inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases …
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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...
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financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …
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strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …
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education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education. … population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is associated with a significant increase in income inequality. As …
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