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We use recent unconditional quantile regression methods (UQR) to study the distributive eects of education in Argentina … exibility and usefulness of UQR methods. Our application for the case of Argentina shows that education contributed positively … to increased inequality in Argentina, mostly due to the effect of strongly heterogeneous effects of education on earnings. …
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This paper deals with an analysis of the effects of education on the income of Czech households from 2006-2010. EU … possible to make comparison between countries. Households are divided into five categories according to the education attained … education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the …
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weakening of these factors over time. Policies are necessary to improve equality of opportunity in education in Turkey. …
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income, education, and life satisfaction groups changes with the average life satisfaction of the state. We find that the … results indicate that directed policies aimed at increasing the income of the poor or education levels of the least educated …
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differences on the education attainment of the population had an effect of reducing the inequality, the policy of paying better …
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differences on the education attainment of the population had an effect of reducing the inequality, the policy of paying better …
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households still consider expenditure for health and education is luxury. When we consider intra household decision making power …
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Until now there was little evidence of the influence of large governments on happiness and when it existed, it was positive. We show that structural government consumption and other measures of long-term government imbalances significantly decrease happiness and life satisfaction in European...
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Using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set, we investigate the effect of religion on subjective well-being (SWB), specifically taking into account the implication of selection effects explaining religious influence. In order to measure the level of religious involvement, we...
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of medium- and long-term participation in microcredit programs. It utilises a new and large panel dataset collected from treatment and control households from 1997 to 2005. The data enables us to identify continuing participants in the...
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