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and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …
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of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the …
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Inequality between ethnic groups has been shown to be negatively related to GDP, but research on its effect on … harmonized Gini indices on ethnic inequality for countries and sub-national units between 1992 and 2013. Our approach exploits … that ethnic inequality is widespread across countries but has decreased over time. Exploiting the artificiality of sub …
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This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human wellbeing, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
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We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in … nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is … independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures and instruments are calculated based on grid-level data for existing …
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In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …
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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the 19th and early 20th century …. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was associated with a lower speed of human capital formation. Not all talents …
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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context where the ethnic composition in schools has changed due to a massive influx of...
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