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Intrahousehold and interhousehold child nutrition inequality in Malawi
Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
health outcomes for household members. This paper investigates whether child nutrition inequalities are attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322624
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The joint effect of human capital and income inequalities on HIV/AIDS prevalence: An exploratory investigation
Annim, Samuel Kobina; Dasmani, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The evidence of higher income inequality leading to increased HIV prevalence through channels of coercion and migration has emerged. This coupled with previously established macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS connotes reverse causality that is likely to develop a cyclical effect. The plausible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562628
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Notas sobre Descomposiciones Microeconométricas: Un Análisis Antropométrico
Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This essay presents a theoretic approximation on the microeconometric decompositions analysis by incorporating anthropometric variables, and apprainsing theirs presumable effects on the income distribution. A new body-mass-index based equivalent scale is proposed toward more accurate individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837316
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Child Labour and Inequality
Fioroni, Tamara; D'Alessandro, Simone - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two types of workers, low- and high-skilled. This heterogeneity allows an endogenous analysis of inequality generated by child labour. More specifically, according to empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108042
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Tracking Disparities: Who Gets Left Behind? Initial Findings from Peru Round 3 Survey
Cueto, Santiago; Escobal, Javier; Penny, Mary; Ames, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
late 2009 to early 2010 with two age cohorts of children. It gives a broad outline of some of the key indicators of … childhood poverty and changes that have taken place in the children’s lives between the earlier rounds of data collection in … to make comparisons between the older children at age 8 in 2002 (in Round 1), and the younger cohort at age 8 in 2009 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108313
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A theory of family education incentives and inequality
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove … that equal transfers among children are expected under perfect information, while the second-best contract implies risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113407
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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality of Opportunity in Peru: Taking Advantage of the Longitudinal Dimension of Young Lives
Escobal, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
opportunity evolve as children get older. Results show that although scalar indices of multidimensional poverty, deprivations or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114378
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One dollar, one vote
Karabarbounis, Loukas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper revisits the relationship between inequality and redistribution in a panel of advanced OECD countries. Using panel data methods that hold constant a variety of determinants of redistributive spending, I find a non-monotonic relationship between pre-tax-and transfer distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646770
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Inequality, Trade and Development: Evidence from Developing Countries
Majeed, Dr. Muhammad Tariq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study analyzes the impact of trade on cross-country inequality using a panel data set from 65 developing counties over a long period 1970-2008. This study differs from the existing literature on distributional impact of trade by explicitly noting the importance of development stage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112359
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Inequality, Financial Development and Government: Evidence from Low-Income Developing Countries
Majeed, Dr. Muhammad Tariq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of financial and economic development on cross-country income inequality using a panel data set from 50 low-income developing counties over a long period 1970-2008. The results show that financial development helps in reducing inequalities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112910