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As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of government policy on the distribution of income by adjusting...
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indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index … models, k-means clustering, and hierarchical clustering. Our findings revealed that the Gini index was statistically … insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students’ PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender …
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staggering. An education Gini index -- a new indicator for the distribution of human capital and welfare -- facilitates … comparison of education inequality across countries and over time …
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of education inequality across countries and over time. Thomas, Wang, and Fan use a Gini index to measure inequality in …. Inequality in education as measured by the education Gini index is negatively associated with average years of schooling … Division, World Bank Institute - is an extension of the paper "Measuring Educational Inequality: Education Gini Index from 1960 …
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developed in the context of a decomposition of the Gini coefficient and the roles of, and relationships between, these groups in … societal income inequality, poverty, polarization and societal segmentation are examined. What emerges for the Eurozone as an … behaviour. However, in the face of increasing overall Eurozone inequality, constituent nations were becoming increasingly …
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Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in inequality …
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Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …
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that currently changes in income or consumption inequality are (almost) exclusively due to changes in the share of the … of hidden (or partially hidden) inequality and how the Palma may be useful in bringing this to light in the parts of the …
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