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-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human … ; high income countries ; general well being ; poverty ; human development ; assessing capabilities …
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The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality's relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
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A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …
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, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …
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causal inference on the effect of eviction. The first takes advantage of the panel data through a difference …
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-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra … outlets in Israel for two years (2015-2016), I find that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation … Support recipients. In addition, the other social security and salary paydays induce a trivial impact relative to total …
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everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited … replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate models of alternative "recipes" for LS. There appear to be at least four …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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