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The consequences of granting democratic rights to citizens in otherwise authoritarian regimes has been extensively studied. Much less is know about the implications of retracting these rights when a government wants to recentralize power. Autonomous governance in rural China, introduced in the...
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Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large scale competition. In the Netherlands free parental choice is present since the beginning of the 20th century, which can be characterized as a full voucher program with 100%...
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serve as collateral. Under fixed land supply, house prices rise in real terms. The combination of growing wage inequality …
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, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …
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-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality … contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is thesource of most inequality, rather than the …
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In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
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safety at given own-income. Theown-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern for …
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Measurement of inequity in health care delivery has focused on the extent to which health care utilisation is or is not distributed according to need, irrespective of income. Studies using cross-sectional data have proposed various ways of measuring and standardizing for need, but inevitably...
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In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …
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