This book contributes to the understanding of gender and regional inequalities in developing countries. First, it deals with social institutions related to gender inequality and proposes new composite indices to measure them. Using these indices, some interesting empirical connections between...

High-dimensional covariates often admit linear factor structure. To effectively screen correlated covariates in high-dimension, we propose a conditional variable screening test based on non-parametric regression using neural networks due to their representation power. We ask the question whether...

We investigate the effect of haze-related sentiment on urban-rural income inequality of prefecture-level cities in China. Income inequality is captured by the Theil index, the ratio and the difference between urban-rural income. We use GPT-3.5 models to conduct the sentiment analysis on the...

Die Methodik der Aggregation von Importzöllen kann die Ergebnisse von Liberalisierungsstudien maßgeblich beeinflussen. Gegenstand dieses Beitrages ist ein Vergleich der unterschiedlichen Methoden zur Aggregation von Importzöllen. Zunächst erfolgt hierfür eine theoretische Darstellung der...