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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305923
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What explains Vietnam's exceptional performance in education relative to other countries? : analysis of the 2012 and 2015 Pisa data
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Khoa Vu; Lee, Jongwook - 2021
Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing countries, and even ahead of wealthier countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., on the 2012 and 2015 PISA assessments. We provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517550
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Migration and young child nutrition : evidence from rural China
Mu, Ren; De Brauw, Alan - 2013
The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms between wage growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763248
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China‘s great boom as a historical process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2020
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012373127
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Labor markets, inequality and poverty in Georgia
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001
The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical account of main channels through which the growth in transition period has affected labor market and living standards in Georgia. It is based on both the official aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391608
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Crime, the criminal justice system, and socioeconomic inequality
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2016
inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455310
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its …
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Tony Atkinson and his legacy
Brandolini, Andrea; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2017
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703653
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Are intellectual property rights fair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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Living standards and economic vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001
Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts outside Turkey to use household survey data from two nationally representative surveys conducted in 1987 and 1994 to get a picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415594