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Wang, Ping - 2018

Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...

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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2022

in control variables and estimation methods. This inverted U-curve is consistent with a simple political economy model …

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The World Distribution of Income (Estimated from Individual Country Distributions)

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021

We estimate the world distribution of income by integrating individual income distributions for 125 countries between … hosted 11% of the world's poor in 1960. It hosted 66% of them in 1998. We estimate nine indexes of income inequality implied … by our world distribution of income. All of them show substantial reductions in global income inequality during the 1980s …

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Explaining Inequality the World Round : Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, Andopenness

Higgins, Matthew; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...

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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs : Education, Religion and Superstition

Mocan, Naci H. - 2014

We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...

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Frontier Culture : The Roots and Persistence of “Rugged Individualism” in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Fiszbein, Martin; Melese Gebresilasse, Mesay - 2021

The presence of a westward-moving frontier of settlement shaped early U.S. history. In 1893, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered individualism. We investigate the Frontier Thesis and identify its long-run implications for culture and...

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New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2016

This paper first uses data from three large international surveys – the Gallup World Poll, the World Values Survey and …

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Culture and the Historical Process

Nunn, Nathan - 2012

This article discusses the importance of accounting for cultural values and beliefs when studying the process of historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described. Because cultural traits evolve based upon relative...

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Joblessness and Perceptions About the Effectiveness of Democracy

Altindag, Duha T. - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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Equilibrium Fictions : a Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

Hoff, Karla - 2010

framework, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth matter not just directly but because …

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