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Age heaping and numeracy: Looking behind the curtain
Blum, Matthias; Krauss, Karl-Peter - 2017
Age heaping-based numeracy indicators have served as valuable tools to derive basic human capital estimates, especially for periods where other indicators are unavailable. However, the accuracy of individual age statements usually remains unknown, and due to the lack of precise information it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674613
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Estimating inequality of opportunity in more periods than ever before: The capital income approach
del Valle-Inclán Cruces, Hugo - 2019
The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of … background. Finally, we apply it to estimate Inequality of Opportunity for the full length of the EU-SILC database, which covers …
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Rethinking Local Commons Dilemmas: Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field
Cardenas, Juan Camilo - 2002
"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468435
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Masochistic Fun with Plutocratic Murder
Fix, Blair - 2023
.) So after last week’s review of Cory Doctorow’s book Red Team Blues, I tweeted the relation between income inequality and … patterns. Back to the tweet. Taleb is implying that the relation between inequality and murder is essentially a random blob of …
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The scientific limits of understanding the (potential) relationship between complex social phenomena : the case of democracy and inequality
Krauss, Alexander - In: The journal of economic methodology 23 (2016) 1, pp. 97-109
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452258
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Age heaping and numeracy : looking behind the curtain
Blum, Matthias; Krauss, Karl-Peter - 2017
Age heaping-based numeracy indicators have served as valuable tools to derive basic human capital estimates, especially for periods where other indicators are unavailable. However, the accuracy of individual age statements usually remains unknown, and due to the lack of precise information it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669765
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Estimating inequality of opportunity in more periods than ever before : the capital income approach
Valle-Inclán Cruces, Hugo del - 2019 - This version: March 15th 2019
The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of … background. Finally, we apply it to estimate Inequality of Opportunity for the full length of the EU-SILC database, which covers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009246
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Piketty and the growth dilemma revisited in the context of ecological economics
Morgan, Jamie - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 136 (2017), pp. 169-177
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793906
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The Future of Global Poverty in a Multi-Speed World: New Estimates of Scale and Location, 2010–2030
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - 2013
, Peter Edward and Andy Sumner introduce new model of growth, inequality, and poverty that allows comparison of a wide range … inequality trends—up to almost an extra billion $2 poor people in one scenario. Where the world’s poor will reside also depends … on inequality trends and the methods used to estimate poverty. The authors find little compelling evidence that global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668569
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Intergenerational knot : eating meat in contexts of inequality
Hase Ueta, Mariana - 2024
The Anthropocene is not only a period of rapid environmental transformation but also a prolific moment of values changes. While the temporality dimensions of this phenomenon are a challenge to social sciences inquiry, it also presents a great opportunity for new methodologies to emerge. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064362