This study is concerned with health damages from SO2 under different assumptions on the relationship between air concentrations and their marginal health impacts. SO2 concentration profiles resulting under emission caps, and a system of tradable emission allowances are compared. Using slopes and...

This study applies unconditional quantile regressions estimated using recentered influence functions to analyze income gaps based on households’ residence, education and employment status in six Asian countries. China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan are found to represent different...

The Chinese national government has strived to achieve social prosperity and harmony among its diverse population through hierarchical ordering of various social groups with respect to their political legitimacy and economic entitlement. Citizens’ hukou is used to segregate citizens and deny...

This study assesses the evolution of earnings across different groups of workers during Russia’s 2000–2013 oil boom, and amidst the 2014–2015 oil bust and a trade war. Unconditional quantile regressions and growth incidence curves are applied to nine household surveys for 2000–2016 to...