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inability to help their children benefit from formal education, while its demand originates from capitalists-the firms' owners … should therefore focus on education reforms that raise the quality of education school-goers receive, and on political …
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This paper explores the dynamics of voting over mandatory education when parents allocate children's time between … of forms of child labor that provide skill-enhancimg learning-by-doing cam be essential for compulsory education laws to …
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distribution functions cross at the lower tails of the distributions, the more recent years tend to dominate earlier years for a …
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The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...
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Following Milanovic's (1997) paper [Economics Letters, vol. 56, p. 45-49], we propose a simple way to compute the Gini index when income y is a quadratic function of its rank among n individuals.
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inability to help their children benefit from formal education, while its demand originates from capitalists-the firms' owners … should therefore focus on education reforms that raise the quality of education school-goers receive, and on political …
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develop a theory of the emergence of mandatory-education laws. If parents are unable to commit to educating their children … reduce child wages can make poor families better off, but that this may come at the expense of even poorer families. …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
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ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …
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flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well-known Gini … inequality-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate …
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