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Inequality and growth in the very long run: Inferring inequality from data on social groups
Modalsli, Jørgen - 2013
This paper presents a new method for calculating Gini coefficients from tabulations of the mean income of social classes. Income distribution data from before the Industrial Revolution usually come in the form of such tabulations, called social tables. Inequality indices generated from social...
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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2015
Strong intergenerational correlations in wealth have fueled a long-standing debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and socioeconomic characteristics. The mechanism by …
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What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, Ola Lotherington - 2020
the change in wealth over the period. The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of using this … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this …
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From Worship to Worldly Pleasures: Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2012
In medieval times, most people identifi ed with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and unprecedented rates. The present paper develops a...
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The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap
Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2014
Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor market attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate the intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in employment. We...
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The long-term consequences of the global 1918 influenza pandemic: A systematic analysis of census data from 51 countries
Wójcik, Juditha; Bommer, Christian; Naeher, Dominik; … - 2022
Several country-level studies have identified long-term adverse effects of in-utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic (also known as the Spanish Flu) on economic outcomes. In-utero conditions are theoretically linked to adult health and socio-economic status through the fetal origins...
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The global income gap to a healthy diet
Stehl, Jonas; Depenbusch, Lutz; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2023
Access to a healthy diet is a fundamental human right, yet a significant portion of the global population faces barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional...
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The roots of female emancipation: From perennial cool water via pre-industrial late marriages to postindustrial gender equality
Santos Silva, Manuel; Alexander, Amy C.; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2017
Reviewing the burgeoning literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, we theorize and provide evidence for an overlooked trajectory that (1) originates in a climatic configuration called the "Cool Water" (CW-) condition, from where the trajectory leads to (2) late female marriages...
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Healthy diet based poverty lines
Stehl, Jonas; Depenbusch, Lutz; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2024
Access to a healthy diet is a fundamental human right, yet a significant portion of the global population faces barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed around food consumption inadequate for lifelong health. We propose poverty lines based on the cost of a...
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Selection in surveys
Dutz, Deniz; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Lacouture, Santiago; … - 2021
We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic that used randomly assigned financial incentives to...
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