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Inequality beyond GDP : a long view
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484558
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A human development index by internal migrational status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396465
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Socio-economic status, health shocks, life satisfaction and mortality : evidence from an increasing mixed proportional hazard model
Frijters, Paul (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003146885
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Socio-economic status, health shocks, life satisfaction and mortality : evidence from an increasing mixed proportional hazard model
Frijters, Paul (contributor);  … - 2005
-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002615800
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Constitutions and prosperity : the impact of legal and economic institutions on the wealth of nations
Holcombe, Randall G.; Lawson, Robert; Gwartney, James D. - In: Democratic constitutional design and public policy : …, (pp. 289-316). 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003581729
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484020
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484175
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Trends in human and economic development across countries
Nissan, Edward - In: Journal of economic development 27 (2002) 1, pp. 41-51
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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2017
Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969092
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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016
Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992665