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Global inequality: levels and trends, 1993 - 2005 : how sensitive are these to the choice of PPPs and real income measures?

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Nutrient intake : a cross-national analysis of trends and economic correlates

Dave, Dhaval; Doytch, Nadia; Kelly, Inas Rashad - 2016

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Essays in the economics of inequality

Grün, Carola (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does Investment in Schooling Raise National Income? Evidence from Cross-Country Studies

Breton, Theodore R. - 2014

The economics literature identifies three effects of schooling on national income; the direct effect on the earnings of the workers who receive the schooling and the external effects on workers' earnings and on physical capital due to schooling's spillover effect on the productivity of these...

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Does Inflation Targeting Increase Output Volatility? An International Comparison of Policymakers' Preferences and Outcomes

Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 1999

Aggregate shocks that move output and inflation in opposite directions create a tradeoff between output and inflation variability, forcing central bankers to make a choice. Differences in the degree of accommodation of shocks lead to disparate variability outcomes, revealing national central...

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Sectoral Okun's Law and Cross-Country Cyclical Differences

Goto, Eiji - 2020

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...

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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2017

Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …

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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016

Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …

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Nutrient Intake : A Cross-National Analysis of Trends and Economic Correlates

Dave, Dhaval - 2016

Nutrition is a key input in the health production function, and a better understanding of how we eat can aid in guiding effective policy change towards better population health. This study documents prevalence rates, trends in, and potential correlates of nutrient intake for panels of countries,...

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes …

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