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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle : some experimental evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184496
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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle - some experimental evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174148
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An open database on inequality and polarization in length of life (1950-2021)
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tejería, Mercedes - 2023
disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity … Population Prospects to develop the most comprehensive database of lifespan inequality and polarization for 258 countries and … userfriendly website that enables users to compute lifespan inequality for any group of countries of their choice. These extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380667
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Breastfeeding and child development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2021
We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development in the first five years of life, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816075
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Investments in the human capital of the socially disadvantaged children : effects on redistribution
Lohse, Tim; Lutz, Peter F.; Thomann, Christian - 2011
Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading considerably in the U.S. and are currently tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407601
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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market
Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Educational mismatch has been discussed extensively, mostly by applying OLS wage regressions which are prone to an unobserved heterogeneity bias. This problem is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763249
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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437033
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Economic reasoning on the correlation between life expectancy and economic development : exploring alternative routes
Wittmann, Nadine - 2014
gross domestic product level has been reached is that of increasing economic and social inequality of distribution within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425989
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Rethinking the relative income hypothesis
Blanco-Perez, Cristina - 2012
Income comparisons have been found to be important for individual health. However, the literature has so far looked solely at upward comparisons, disregarding the effects of comparisons with worse-off individuals. In this paper, I use a broad definition of relative income to test simultaneously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681688
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The Welfare Effects of Health-Based Food Tax Policy
Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2011
reduce health inequality. This effect undermines the traditional regressivity argument against the heavy taxation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118491