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Accounting for the effect of health on cross-state income inequality in India

Sperling, Lena Lindbjerg; Kjøller-Hansen, Anders Oskar - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 252-255

We perform development accounting in accordance with Weil (2005, 2007) in a cross-state analysis of India. Results of similar magnitude are found, demonstrating that health can account for 1% to 18% of income differences depending on the health measure.

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The absence of deprivation as a measure of social well-being: An empirical investigation

Magdalou, Brice; Moyes, Patrick - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 1, pp. 75-79

The generalised Lorenz criterion is widely used for making welfare comparisons within and across countries on the basis of their income distributions. Experimental studies have challenged this way of proceeding by showing that the principle of transfers, which underlies the generalised Lorenz...

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Is income inequality persistent? Evidence using panel stationarity tests, 1870–2011

Islam, Md. Rabiul; Madsen, Jakob B. - In: Economics Letters 127 (2015) C, pp. 17-19

Using data on inequality for 21 OECD countries over the period 1870–2011 this paper tests the Piketty hypothesis that income inequality is likely to grow in the 21st century. It is shown that the null hypothesis of trend stationarity of inequality cannot be rejected at conventional...

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Cultures of Aspiration and Poverty? Aspirational Inequalities in Northeast and Southern Thailand

Camfield, Laura; Masae, Awae; McGregor, J.; … - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 3, pp. 1049-1072

aspirations, could explain why the effect of material poverty on people’s satisfaction with their lives is small. The reduction in …

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Approximations to the Truth: Comparing Survey and Microsimulation Approaches to Measuring Income for Social Indicators

Figari, Francesco; Iacovou, Maria; Skew, Alexandra; … - In: Social Indicators Research 105 (2012) 3, pp. 387-407

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Estimating the value and distributional effects of free state schooling

Andreou, Sofia N.; Koutsampelas, Christos; Pashardes, Panos - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 2, pp. 303-305

and anti-poverty effects of state education are illustrated. …

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A Measure of Income Poverty Including Housing: Benefits and Limitations for Policy Making

Maestri, Virginia - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 3, pp. 675-696

methods are discussed from the point of view of different policy aims (poverty and tax analyses). This study uses 2010 EU …-SILC data and provides an assessment of the impact of the housing situation of households on relative poverty and inequality and … corresponding transition matrices into and out of poverty, according to the two approaches for measuring the housing situation. The …

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