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Trends of Children’s Height and Parental Unemployment: A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 – 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - CESifo - 2008
The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 – except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406183
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Increases in Risk and the Welfare State
Eichner, Thomas; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2002
According to many observers, the world is currently getting riskier along many of its dimensions. In this paper we analyse how the welfare state, i.e., social insurance that works through redistributive taxation, should deal with this trend. We distinguish between risks that can be insured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766063
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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853849
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Nighttime Lights as a Proxy for Human Development at the Local Level
Bruederle, Anna - 2017
Nighttime lights are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity and economic development in subnational spatial units. However, so far, our understanding of what nighttime lights capture is limited. We construct local indicators of household wealth, education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950603
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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries : A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Juergen H. W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316065
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912680
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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015
We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted … economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our … results suggest that there is no robust relationship between economic freedom and income inequality. In addition, we analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124890
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Regional Inequality and Internal Conflict
Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610085
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Finance and Income Inequality : A Review and New Evidence
de Haan, Jakob - 2016
development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work …, our results suggest that all finance variables increase income inequality. The level of financial development conditions … the impact of financial liberalization on inequality. Also the quality of political institutions conditions the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980576
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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2017
This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964049