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Measuring the competitiveness of elections
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...
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Ageing and fiscal imbalances across generations : concepts of measurement
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...
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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021
Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
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Income dependent equivalence scales, inequality, and poverty
Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - 2015
Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales in fact are income dependent. This paper explores the consistency of results derived from income independent and income...
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On a simple survey measure of individual risk aversion
Hartog, Joop; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Jonker, Nicole - 2000
We ask individuals for their reservation price of a specified lottery and deduce their Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion. This allows direct testing of common hy-poth-eses on risk atti-tudes in three datasets. We find that risk aversion indeed falls with income and wealth. Entre-preneurs are...
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
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Measuring the economic risk of epidemics
Noy, Ilan; Nguyen Doan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2019
We measure the economic risk of epidemics at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the epidemic hazard prediction, we use data from 2014-2019 to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the local economy to the shock of an epidemic. Using a battery...
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Should we care (more) about data aggregation? : evidence from the democracy-growth-nexus
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices. We observe that most of the available aggregation techniques produce indices that are often too favorable for autocratic regimes and too unfavorable for democratic regimes....
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2013
-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We …This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. -- Prospect Theory …
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An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development
Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - 2013
A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...
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