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Taxing tobacco in Georgia : welfare and distributional gains of smoking cessation

Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan; González Icaza, María Fernanda - 2020

This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...

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Measuring ancient inequality

Milanović, Branko (contributor); … - 2007

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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates : Evidence from Argentina's Downturns

Cruces, Guillermo - 2011

aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant …

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Going Beyond GDP with a Parsimonious Indicator : Inequality-Adjusted Healthy Lifetime Income

Bloom, David E. - 2020

Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....

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The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings : Distributional Implications for the Pension System

Haan, Peter - 2017

This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...

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Understanding the Rise in Life Expectancy Inequality

Dahl, Gordon B.; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Nielsen, Torben; … - 2021

age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life … recent widening of mortality rates between rich and poor due to lifestyle-related diseases does not explain much of the rise … poor, made initial differences in lifestyle-related mortality more consequential via survivability …

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