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Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential endogeneity problems surrounding this question, the...
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Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in …
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and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …
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smokers was 0.039 (men 0.033; women 0.038). The majority of the inequality could be explained by educational attainment, age …
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This paper examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting about 85 percent of the inhabitants. To lower the disease burden, the Norwegian government launched...
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
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of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct …
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Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy … in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important … that today's children are likely to face considerably less inequality in mortality as they age than current adults. We also …
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Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been ignored. We fill this void by providing the first...
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We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average … level. We document for the first time that inequality in socio-emotional skills has increased across cohorts, especially for …
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