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The distribution of social capital across individuals and its relationship to income
Corinth, Kevin; Winship, Scott; O'Rourke, Thomas - 2024
There have been several attempts to measure social capital-the value inhering in relationships-at an aggregate level, but researchers lack comprehensive individual-level social capital measures. Using a combination of direct linkage and imputation across several nationally representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054233
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The economic value of virtue.
Mariani, Fabio - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008
societies and over time, can be determined, among others, by income inequality, gender differences, social stratification and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988957
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Waiting for Mr Right: Rising Inequality and Declining Marriage Rates
Gould, Eric D; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504574
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More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere
Alimi, Omoniyi; Maré, Dave C.; Poot, Jacques - 2017
distribution of personal income to better understand urban area-level income inequality (measured by the Mean Log Deviation index … significant increase in income inequality over the last few decades, but population ageing has slightly dampened this trend …. Because metropolitan areas are ageing slower, the inequality-reducing effect of ageing has been less in these areas. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653418
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Epidemics, inequality and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial times
Alfani, Guido - 2020
economic inequality, has attracted the greatest attention. However, the picture becomes much more complex if other epidemics … affected inequality in health and living standards. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669542
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The Long-Awaited Rise of the Middle Class in Latin America Is Finally Happening
Bussolo, Maurizio; Maliszewska, Maryla; Murard, Elie - 2017
should drive down the skill premium and reduce inequality. Within the limitations of any exercise based on simulations, this … paper finds that the recently observed reduction in inequality in Latin America may continue. Building on counterfactual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744516
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The medium- and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire: A dynamic microsimulation study
Grimm, Michael - 2004
I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d’Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284873
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Inherited Wealth and Demographic Aging
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the first attempts to shed light on how demographic aging could shape this role. We show that, in the absence of retirement annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522484
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Inherited wealth and demographic aging
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the first attempts to shed light on how demographic aging could shape this role. We show that, in the absence of retirement annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499894
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The long-awaited rise of the middle class in Latin America is finally happening
Bussolo, Maurizio; Maliszewska, Maryla; Murard, Elie - 2017
should drive down the skill premium and reduce inequality. Within the limitations of any exercise based on simulations, this … paper finds that the recently observed reduction in inequality in Latin America may continue. Building on counterfactual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664507