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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241367
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Taxing tobacco in Georgia : welfare and distributional gains of smoking cessation
Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan; González Icaza, María Fernanda - 2020
This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228627
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The measurement of health inequalities : does status matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2016
The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547679
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Global inequality in length of life : 1950-2015
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
reduction that can be largely attributed to the substantial progress made in reducing child mortality worldwide. We also observe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776424
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Measuring health inequality with categorical data : some regional patterns
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2013
Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199448
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The global joint distribution of income and health
Wu, Ximing (contributor); Savvides, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748490
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Measuring ancient inequality
Milanović, Branko (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623725
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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002925708
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Economic inequality and Covid-19 death rates in the first wave, a cross-country analysis
Davies, James B. - 2021
The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … associated with higher mortality. The death rate has a consistent strong positive relationship with the Gini coefficient for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489645
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Endogenous longevity and optimal tax progressivity
Heer, Burkhard; Rohrbacher, Stefan - 2020
We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at the expense of lower average lifetime and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312268