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and infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. We show that despite a reduction in … the real value of the household consumption and a surge in outcome inequality between 2009/10 and 2010/11, the consumption … dynamic appears to alleviate inequality of opportunity in Uganda. …
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … good quality. This study investigates inequality in past attainment, in current school access, and learning or educational …
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I discuss a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources. I … element indicating the marginal change in the inequality contribution of a group (as measured by the recentered influence … function) when an income source is added and with all contributions adding up to overall inequality. The approach can be used …
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risk and thus could lead to exacerbating income inequality. The crisis creates an opportunity to demand further structural … economy is growing relatively slowly. Moreover, financial reforms are effective in reducing income inequality in periods when …
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redistribution policy makes it possible to increase output per capita and to reduce inequality because both increase the educated …
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This rapid response article briefly examines one feature of the relationship between social class and elite sport: the social backgrounds of the Olympians who comprised Team GB (Great Britain) at the 2012 London Olympics Games, and especially their educational backgrounds, as a means of shedding...
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Social mix and social mixing are topics of increasing significance to both the policy and academic communities in the UK, and have particular salience in urban multi-ethnic and socially diverse contexts. Enshrined in the comprehensive school ideal, and implicated in the now legal duty to promote...
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Using Danish administrative data, we show that IVF success is associated with maternal education: College-educated women have a 9% higher live birth chance than high school-educated women and 25% higher than dropouts. We exclude infertility causes, health, clinics, finances, and partner...
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