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Parental influences on health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees
Lindahl, Mikael; Lundberg, Evelina; Palme, Mårten; … - 2016
To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450717
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Inequality of opportunity and beliefs about success and failure
Brock, J. Michelle - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473987
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Extending decomposition analysis to account for socioeconomic background : income-related smoking inequality among Swedish Women
Kjellsson, Gustav - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388827
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Why has inequality in Germany not risen further after 2005?
Rehm, Miriam; Schmid, Kai D.; Wang, Dieter - 2014
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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The decomposition of inequality reconsidered : weakly decomposable measures
Ebert, Udo - In: Mathematical social sciences 60 (2010) 2, pp. 94-103
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Decomposing the recent inequality decline in Latin America
Azevedo, Joao Pedro; Inchauste, Gabriela; Sanfelice, Viviane - 2013
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The decomposition of inequality reconsidered : weakly decomposable measures
Ebert, Udo - 2010
The paper characterizes the class of weakly decomposable (aggregable) inequality measures which satisfy a new (weak) decomposition (and agregation) property. These measures can be decomposed into the sum of the usual within-group and a between-group term which is based on the inequality between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442771
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Parental Influences on Health and Longevity : Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
Lindahl, Mikael - 2016
To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999985
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Parental Influences on Health and Longevity : Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
Lindahl, Mikael - 2016
To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000056
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A decomposition analysis for socioeconomic inequalities in health status associated with the COVID-19 diagnosis and related symptoms during Brazil's first wave of infections
França, Natália Cecília de; Lima Campêlo, Guaracyane; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 251-264
Recent studies have shown that COVID-19 affects different population groups asymmetrically. This work uses data from the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first wave of COVID-19 infections in Brazil. We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162294