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Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves
Aaberge, Rolf - 2008
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations two alternative sequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269185
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Robust inequality comparisons
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2010
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations Aaberge (2009) introduced two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269554
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The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices
Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282353
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On the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003
of inequality are used as treatments. Other determinants of the demand for redistribution, such as risk aversion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261622
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Wages and the Demand for Health - A Life Cycle Analysis
Dustmann, Christian; Windmeijer, Frank - 2000
This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262380
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A theory of child adoption
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283945
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284018
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The analytical returns to measuring a detailed household roster
Akresh, Richard; Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010
Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...
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Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups
Jasso, Guillermina; Kotz, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Social scientists study two kinds of inequality: inequality between persons (as in income inequality) and inequality between subgroups (as in racial inequality). This paper analyzes the mathematical connections between the two kinds of inequality. The paper proceeds by exploring a set of...
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