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The global joint distribution of income and health

Wu, Ximing (contributor); Savvides, Andreas (contributor); … - 2008

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … distributions is ignored. -- Income ; health ; global distribution ; inequality ; poverty …

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Statures, BMIs, and weight : a reassessment

Carson, Scott A. - 2013

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

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African-American and white inequality in the American South : evidence from the 19th Century Missouri state prison

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007

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From the tallest to (one of) the fattest : the enigmatic fate of the American population in the 20th century

Komlos, John; Baur, Marieluise - 2003

considering that this adverse development is related to the greater social inequality, an inferior health-care system, and fewer …- and Northern European welfare states, with cradle to grave health and unemployment insurance currently provide a more …

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Cointegration analysis with mixed-frequency data

Seong, Byeongchan (contributor); Ahn, Sung K. (contributor); … - 2007

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Dynamically optimal R&D subsidization

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010

Previous research on optimal R&D subsidies has focussed on the long run. This paper characterizes the optimal time path of R&D subsidization in a semi-endogenous growth model, by exploiting a recently developed numerical method. Starting from the steady state under current R&D subsidization in...

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Population aging, social security and fiscal limits

Heer, Burkhard; Polito, Vito; Wickens, Michael R. - 2018

We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper limit to the real value of tax revenues. This limit implies an endogenous threshold dependency ratio, i.e. a point in the cross-section distribution of the population beyond...

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The welfare effects of persuasion and taxation : theory and evidence from the field

Rodemeier, Matthias; Löschel, Andreas - 2020

How much information should governments reveal to consumers if consumption choices have uninternalized consequences to society? How does an alternative tax policy compare to information disclosure? We develop a price theoretic model of information design that allows empiricists to identify the...

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Platform design and innovation incentives : evidence from the product ratings system on Apple's App Store

Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2021

A lack of platform-level competition among digital marketplaces can result in socially inefficient platform design and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of actively anticompetitive behavior. To illustrate the first-order effects platform design can have on competitive outcomes, I...

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Stimulating long-term growth and welfare in the U.S.

Malley, James R.; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2023

We develop an endogenous growth model to quantify how permanent structural policy changes that enhance the fiscal policy mix, markets' functioning, and public institutions' quality affect long-term growth and welfare. The reforms include increased public investment, reduced market power through...

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