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Socioeconomic Status and Access to Mental Health Care : The Case of Psychiatric Medications for Children in Ontario Canada
Currie, Janet M.; Kurdyak, Paul; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine differences in the prescribing of psychiatric medications to low-income and higher-income children in the Canadian province of Ontario. The analysis takes advantage of an expansion to universal public drug coverage followed by a contraction in access, coupled with rich administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435157
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Adapting to Circumstances : The Evolution of Work, School, and Living Arrangements Among North American Youth
Card, David - 1997
We use comparable micro data sets for the U.S. and Canada to study the responses of young workers to the external labor … enrollment, and changes in work effort. In particular, we find that poor labor market conditions in Canada explain why the … fraction of youth living with their parents has increased in Canada relative to the U.S. recently. Paradoxically, this move …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472671
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The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being
Blinder, Alan S. - 1980
This paper summarizes and critically evaluates what is known about postwar trends in both the level and distribution of economic well-being. Although certain non-income aspects of well-being are considered, the primary focus is on the level and inequality of income. Considerable attention is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478648
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - 2008
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have experienced relatively larger increases in cost of living, because they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464279
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Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2006
This paper investigates how material well-being has changed over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption. We document the sharp differences between recent trends in measured income and consumption, focusing on families headed by a single mother. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466695
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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774
Burnard, Trevor - 2017
This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453817
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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Canadian Men, 1976-1992 : Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Records
Baker, Michael - 1999
Several recent studies have found that earnings inequality in Canada has grown considerably since the late 1970's …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471414
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Empathy and Emulation : Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups
Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P. - 2008
high-resolution geographic data from three Canada-wide social surveys and the 2001 census to disentangle the spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464056
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The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada, 1920-2000
Saez, Emmanuel - 2003
This paper presents new homogeneous series on top shares of income from 1920 to 2000 in Canada using personal income … top income shares in Canada and the United States, associated with much more modest marginal tax rate cuts in Canada …, suggests that the upward trend in top shares in Canada since the late 1970s cannot be explained by tax cuts. Further evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469091
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Four Decades of Canadian Earnings Inequality and Dynamics across Workers and Firms
Bowlus, Audra J.; Gouin-Bonenfant, Émilien; Liu, Huju; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies the evolution of individual earnings inequality and dynamics in Canada from 1983 to 2016 using tax … declining gender gap), Canada has experienced relatively modest changes in overall earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility …
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