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poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …
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poverty is associated with reduced university aspirations from the perspective of the youth and their mother. Further, poverty … depth matters less than incidence. In terms of magnitude, poverty contributes to about 10-15 percent of the observed … findings. Results therefore suggest that alleviating child poverty and easing post-secondary financial barriers among the poor …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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improves the wellbeing of the poorest groups, it is the richer groups that benefit the most.foreign aid, poverty, well …
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Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …
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persistent poverty, rising inequality, and lack of educational progress in Indonesia …
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educational poverty over the period 1975-2004 by using traditional inequality indicators, but adapting them to some features of … follow the evolution of educational inequality and poverty over 15 years. Moreover, we also use other data sources … also within each province and area. However, the Theil index decomposition shows that the decrease of educational poverty …
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