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Társadalmi különbségek a gyermekek egészségi állapotában Magyarországon a 21. század második évtizedében

Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor - 2023

Our study examines social differences in health during childhood and adolescence in Hungary in the 2010s. For this analysis, we have collected administrative and survey data sources and organized them into a coherent statistical framework. These restructured data have been used to identify...

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Transmissible Diseases, Vaccination and Inequality

Camacho, Carmen; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2023

We build a Susceptible-Infected-Vaccinated Economic two-sector growth model to study the evolution of inequality in an … long-run inequality depends on the economic variable we use to build our inequality measure, on the infectiousness of the … disease, and on whether we address individual or group measures of inequality. Under our calibration, if the share of …

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Intergenerational Health Mobility in Germany

Graeber, Daniel - 2023

We describe the joint permanent health distribution of parents and children in Germany using 25 years of data from the Socio-Economic Panel. We derive three main results: First, a ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is associated with a 2.3 percentile increase in their child's...

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An open database on inequality and polarization in length of life (1950-2021)

Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tejería, Mercedes - 2023

disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity … Population Prospects to develop the most comprehensive database of lifespan inequality and polarization for 258 countries and … userfriendly website that enables users to compute lifespan inequality for any group of countries of their choice. These extensive …

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Inequality and psychological well-being in times of COVID-19: Evidence from Spain

Martinez-Bravo, Monica; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 489-548

Using two novel online surveys collected in May and November 2020, we study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on Spanish households. We document a large and negative effect on household income. By May 2020, the average individual lived in a household that had lost 16% of their...

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Are we yet sick of new technologies? The unequal health effects of digitalization

Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024

and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers …

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Higher inequality in Latin America: A collateral effect of the pandemic

Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022

This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …

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Income inequality and health: Evidence from developed and developing countries

Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014

We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …

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Income inequality and health: Evidence from developed and developing countries

Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014

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Unfair pay and health

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - 2014

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

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