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results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with increases in individual participation in political organizations …This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this … impact persists over time, and what mechanisms may shape the relationship between inequality and civic engagement. The …
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conclusión, se ofrecen una serie de reflexiones finales sobre los retos que Colombia enfrenta para el manejo del agua, sus … collective agreements as well as a citizen-based monitoring system for water management in north-eastern Colombia. Specifically …
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Abstract: We study the impact of unjust inequality on social trust and trustworthiness, and its separate effect on the … economic inequality on social interactions. Probing the boundaries of this effect, we document that this erosion of social …
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foundations, how polarization is distinct from inequality and other ways of considering distances and differences across …
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We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest … inequality measure increases by 6.5% the unconditional probability of observing social unrest in a village in a given month. …
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social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …
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This paper estimates income polarization in the People'http://www.adb.org/publications/income-polarization-prc-trends-changess Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 2010 and decomposes the estimated polarization by population subgroup. In addition, a framework is proposed to disentangle a change...
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This paper estimates income polarization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 2010 and decomposes the estimated polarization by population subgroup. In addition, a framework is proposed to disentangle a change in polarization into a growth and a redistribution component. This...
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resources and the perception of social inequality in Germany will be picked out as a central theme. By means of empirical … findings it becomes clear that the degree of inequality and polarization with respect to the living conditions – both measured …
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We document a negative relationship between population size and inequality in the cross-country data. We propose an … between population size, and its geographical concentration, and post-tax inequality in non-democracies. We subject these … predictions to extensive empirical scrutiny in a cross-country context, and the data robustly confirm these patterns of inequality …
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