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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying … income-related child health inequality is family income itself, although other factors, such as maternal education, also play …
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development of socio-economic inequality in mortality rates from 1990 to 2015 for different age groups and both genders. Ranking …, children and the very old. The most important driver of this reduction in inequality is German reunification in 1990. As …
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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying … income-related child health inequality is family income itself, although other factors, such as maternal education, also play …
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income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …
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income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …
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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
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This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …
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It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...
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