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percent in mature adulthood. Health is the most important factor, and its importance increases with age. Income is important … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …
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quality data on oldest-old mortality remain relatively scarce. The Kannisto-Thatcher Old Age Mortality Database (KTD) is a … unique source providing uniformly recalculated old-age mortality data for 35 countries. Our study addresses a number of data … Kannisto, we apply the same set of measures. This allows us to identify dubious or irregular mortality patterns. Deviations …
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disparity, but averting a late death increases inequality in lifespans. …
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: countries that rank high in development as measured by health, income, and education, but low in gender equality, continue to …
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fertility – general socioeconomic development, per capita income, and gender equality – are all positively correlated with …
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multilevel approach to GGP data, we propose a list of 200 variables that include statistical norms, legal norms and regulations …
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The increasing recognition that the study of human behaviors has to take into account the multiple contexts in which they occur has opened a promising research avenue in social sciences. It also presents new challenges, e.g., to complement micro-level surveys with the collection of meaningful...
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We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account …, is insufficient to explain the secular decline of population growth. For that interaction of mortality and income growth …
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inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined … as the capitalized sum of net labor income, government transfers, and gifts and inheritances received over the period … are only an important source of income flows among those who have very wealthy parents. Additionally, gifts and …
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inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined … as the capitalized sum of net labor income, government transfers, and gifts and inheritances received over the period … are only an important source of income flows among those who have very wealthy parents. Additionally, gifts and …
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