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We analyze the first representative series of individual measurements of the height of Swiss conscripts for the years 1875–1950. We find that average height followed a general upward time trend, but the economic downturn in the 1880s slowed down the increase in rural average-heights while the...
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The quintile share ratio of disposable income is the primary inequality indicator of the European Union. As an inequality indicator, it must be sensitive to extreme large observations. Therefore, outliers have a strong impact on the bias and the variance of the classical quintile share ratio...
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