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Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
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Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...
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The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …
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high risk of COVID-19 mortality who experienced major health shocks during the pandemic, inequality aversion was …We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the …
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insurance (SSDI). Health affects individuals' productivity, SSDI access, disutility from work, mortality, and medical expenses …Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect … health. We build a dynamic, general equilibrium, life cycle model that is consistent with these findings. In the model …
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We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates … (income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …
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life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
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reduction that can be largely attributed to the substantial progress made in reducing child mortality worldwide. We also observe …
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reduction that can be largely attributed to the substantial progress made in reducing child mortality worldwide. We also observe …
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This paper outlines a comparison empirically between overall inequality in child malnutrition (Malnutrition-Gini) and wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A. Wagstaff and E.van Doorslaer, 2003 is used for this...
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