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Per Capita Income, Consumption Patterns, and CO2 Emissions
Caron, Justin - 2018
world emissions on aggregate …
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The Great Transition : Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Marto, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century in the United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510535
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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little explanatory power for our new series of inequality...
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Explaining Inequality the World Round : Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, andOpenness
Higgins, Matthew - 1999
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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Height and Per Capita Income
Steckel, Richard H. - 1982
As an aid to interpreting the results of height-by-age studies this paper investigates the relationship between average height and per capita income. The relationships among income, nutrition, medical care, and height at the individual level suggest that average height is nonlinearly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478231
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Putting Per-Capita Income Back into Trade Theory
Markusen, James R. - 2010
A major role for per-capita income in international trade, as opposed to simply country size, was persuasively advanced by Linder (1961). Yet this crucial element of Linder's story was abandon by most later trade economists in favor of the analytically-tractable but counter-empirical assumption...
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Underestimating the Real Growth of GDP, Personal Income and Productivity
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2017
The problems involved in estimating real output that I discuss in this paper cause the official government statistics to underestimate of the rates of growth of real GDP, real personal income, and productivity. That underestimation is important not just to economists trying to understand where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455375
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Family Size and the Distribution of Per Capita Income
Lazear, Edward P. - 1981
This paper is another contribution to the vast literature which addresses this issue: comparison of household income per capita among households of different structures requires judgment about the relationship between real income and family size. Our work uses a revealed preference approach in...
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Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?
Lindert, Peter H. - 2001
The world economy has become more unequal over the last two centuries. Since within- country inequality exhibits no … ubiquitous trend, it follows that virtually all of the observed rise in world income inequality has been driven by widening gaps … between nations, while almost none of it has driven by widening gaps within nations. Meanwhile, the world economy has become …
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How do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications
Bick, Alexander - 2016
This paper builds a new internationally comparable database of hours worked to measure how hours vary with income across and within countries. We document that average hours worked per adult are substantially higher in low-income countries than in high-income countries. The pattern of decreasing...
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