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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...

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Measuring ancient inequality

Milanović, Branko (contributor); … - 2007

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle - some experimental evidence

Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security … system. We ﬁnd that mortality risk, when negatively correlated with entitlements, signiﬁcantly lowers subjects’ willingness …

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Linking changes in inequality in life expectancy and mortality : evidence from Denmark and the United States

Dahl, Gordon B.; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Nielsen, … - 2020

We decompose changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality … rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is … inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in …

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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...

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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 …

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Socioeconomic inequality in life expectancy : perception and policy demand

Jessen, Lasse J.; Köhne, Sebastian; Nüß, Patrick; … - 2024

Using survey experiments in the United States and Germany with 12,000 participants, we examine perceptions of life expectancy inequality between rich and poor people. The life expectancy of the poor is underestimated more than that of the rich, leading to exaggerated perceptions of inequality in...

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