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This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers' education and mothers' smoking status. Stochastic dominance tests reveal the presence of inequality of opportunity but...
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People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint...
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inequality at the individual and household levels, and separate the role of the welfare state. Finally, while admitting data …
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In this paper we explore the reasons for the trend reversal in the development of household market income inequality in … use household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1991 - 2011 and decompose market income into three income … sources: (1) household labour income from full-time work, (2) household labour income from atypical work, and (3) household …
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