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importance of the poverty problem (need). …
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The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...
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excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and … growth of excess weight. Using the concentration index we find that prevalence of overweight and obesity affected …
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educational level between years helped to reduce overweight and obesity. In contrast, retired and unemployed population in low …
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This paper outlines a comparison empirically between overall inequality in child malnutrition (Malnutrition-Gini) and wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A. Wagstaff and E.van Doorslaer, 2003 is used for this...
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We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our...
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We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108596
We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...
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Socioeconomic inequalities in child development crystallize at early stages, with associated disparities in parental investment in children. A key to understanding the data patterns is to document the sources underlying the observed inequalities. We first show that there are dramatic differences...
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