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2016 in combination with the Economic Freedom of the World Index, we find that inequality only matters in determining medal …Does a countrys level of inequality affect its ability to win Olympic medals? If it does, is it conditional on … institutional factors? We argue that the ability of economically free societies to win medals will not be affected by inequality. In …
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Using US state-level economic freedom measures, we investigate the extent that changes in economic freedom affect US … particularly timely question of who benefits from increases in economic freedom and who does not. Our results indicate that while … increases in economic freedom positively contribute to income growth, the strength of this effect differs across quintiles. …
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Students from low socio-economic status (SES) or ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to enrol into elite universities than high SES or White students. We use student-level university application data from the UK centralised university admissions service to show that these gaps cannot be...
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In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...
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and consolidation of class society and inequality. Money, class society, and inequality came into being simultaneously, so … harmony and equality, while inequality was growing and solidifying. Rather than "invented" by private traders, money was first … origins of inequality, a well-functioning democratic society has the power to subvert the inequality-inducing characteristic …
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I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over …
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and consolidation of class society and inequality. Money, class society, and inequality came into being simultaneously, so … harmony and equality, while inequality was growing and solidifying. Rather than "invented" by private traders, money was first … origins of inequality, a well-functioning democratic society has the power to subvert the inequality-inducing characteristic …
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Southern Africa; E. Fouksman -- 11. From Freedom to Finance: How Development Conditions and Paradigms Frame the Basic Income …
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