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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills: Is Latin America different?

Lopez Boo, Florencia - 2013

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...

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Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications

Chen, Xi - 2015

and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …

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Health and Inequality

O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Ourti, Tom Van - 2013

distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …

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A formal investigation of inequalities in health behaviours after age 50 on the Island of Ireland

Hudson, Eibhlin; Madden, David; Mosca, Irene - 2014

, quality of life and mortality. Understanding inequality in relation to these behaviours among older people is important in the … context of a rapidly ageing population. In this study, we examine income-related inequality in relation to these three key … indices and decompose them to determine the factors which contribute most to inequality. We then examine whether differences …

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Unfair pay and health

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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The impact of government health and education expenditure on income inequality in EU

Jianu, Ionuț - 2018

health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …

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Social security and fighting poverty in Tunisia

Khemili, Hasna; Belloumi, Mounir - In: Economies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17

The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using survey data collected between July 2012 and January 2014, covering 200 poor households. We used questionnaire data, which gave a thorough analysis of the reactions, behavior,...

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Inequality in socioemotional skills: A cross-cohort comparison

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Blundell, Richard W.; Conti, Gabriella - 2018

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … activities, respectively. Using recent methodological advances in factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality … of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average level. We document for the first time that inequality in …

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Neighborhoods and youth health: Everybody needs good neighbors?

Björkegren, Evelina - 2018

There are large differences in health across neighborhoods in Sweden. To try to answer if there is a causal link between neighborhood conditions in childhood and youth health, I apply two different empirical strategies. First, I use population wide data on families living in different areas in...

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