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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …

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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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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

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Measuring Ancient Inequality

Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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