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We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...
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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as …
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An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …
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outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …
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This study analyses the lack of robust conclusions about the association between inequality and economic growth. On the … inequality and unequal opportunity. The relative index of inequality of opportunity is used as explanatory variable in the growth … regression equation. To find out the direction of causality, we also estimate inequality equation by taking growth as an …
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relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …
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its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and … intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is … lower (higher) and the SCC higher (lower) than along an inequality-neutral growth path, especially if intra-generational and …
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While policymakers are rightly concerned about evidence of rising income concentration at the top, it is often wrongly assumed that the same rich individuals stay rich. In reality, the membership of this group are in a state of constant flux. This new study, based on more than 20 million tax...
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and mobility decisions, population growth, and income disparities across and within countries. First, our static …
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Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether redistributional policies are indeed able to combat...
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