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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective

Rainer, Helmut - 2010

This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine...

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour : Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022

The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within …

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …

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Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2022

Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...

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The Global Inequality Boomerang

Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...

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Us Presidential Party Switches are Mirrored in Global Maternal Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022

The Global Gag Rule is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations offering abortion-related information or services. Since first implemented by President Reagan in 1984, it has been enacted under every Republican and revoked under every Democrat. It was...

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The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution

Sala, Hector - 2017

, in contrast, that σ is affected by both globalization and technology, and that different intensities in these drivers … substitution between capital and labor is below unity; that it increases along with the degree of globalization; but it decreases …-output ratio on the labor share irrespective of the degree of globalization (which would be consistent with an average aggregate …

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