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Human poverty : measuring relative deprivation from basic achievements : a comparative study for 144 world countries in the time span 1990-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2013

Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …

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The social cost of carbon and inequality : when local redistribution shapes global carbon prices

Kornek, Ulrike; Klenert, David; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2019

The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...

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Climate inequality : carbon capture for redistribution

Belfiori, Elisa; Macera, Manuel - 2024

We study optimal climate policy in a global economy where regions differ in wealth and climate vulnerability. Carbon emissions from production lead to output losses, and there is a technology for emissions absorption. We provide an aggregation result: the model with heterogeneity can be cast...

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Health and wealth on the roller-voaster : Ireland, 2003 - 2011

Madden, David - 2013

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

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Health and income poverty in Ireland, 2003 - 2006

Madden, David - 2008

Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates … income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating … Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and bi-dimensional poverty indices are calculated for Ireland for the years …

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Effective labor taxation and the international location of headquarters

Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2012

Profit taxes are widely acknowledged to influence the location of firms' headquarters. This paper sheds light on the role of aspects of labor taxation for the international location of headquarters. While profit taxes can be avoided in various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the...

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Are the effects of height on well-being a tall tale?

Denny, Kevin - 2015

Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good economic outcomes such as earnings. A smaller number have argued for an association with well-being. In this paper, cross-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether...

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised

This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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