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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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The long-run impacts of adult deaths on older household members in Tanzania
Adhvaryu, Achyuta R.; Beegle, Kathleen - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916814
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Measuring ancient inequality
Milanović, Branko (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623725
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Measuring ancient inequality
Milanovic, Branko - 2007
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521497
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Predictors of Mortality Among the Elderly
Hurd, Michael - 1999
The objective of this paper is to find the quantitative importance of some predictors of mortality among the population … including a history of heart attack or cancer, and subjective probabilities of survival. The estimation is based on mortality …-economic indicators and mortality declines with age 13 health indicators are strong predictors of mortality and that the subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471342
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Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality among American Cohorts
Deaton, Angus - 1999
cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471654
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Inequality in Life and Death
Eichenbaum, Martin S.; Rebelo, Sérgio; Trabandt, Mathias - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We argue that the Covid epidemic disproportionately affected the economic well-being and health of poor people. To disentangle the forces that generated this outcome, we construct a model that is consistent with the heterogeneous impact of the Covid recession on low- and high-income people....
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Place-Based Drivers of Mortality : Evidence from Migration
Finkelstein, Amy - 2019
We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of movers in the Medicare …
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The Life Expectancy of Older Couples And Surviving Spouses
Compton, Janice - 2018
misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480662
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COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality
Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita incomes by more in poor countries than in rich. This supposition is reasonable but false. Rich countries have experienced more deaths per head than have poor countries; their...
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