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Rates of smoking have decreased dramatically in most Northern European countries over the last 50 years or so, but … inequalities reflect differences across education groups in knowledge of the risks of smoking. The second suggests that the living … conditions of lower social class groups leads to the development of lower self-efficacy and a lower propensity to quit smoking …
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In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control. Data came from the China Health and Retirement...
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We study the dynamics of income inequality, capital concentration, and voting outcomes before 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian counties and districts we re-evaluate the key economic debate between Marxists and their critics before 1914. We show that the increase in inequality was...
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In this paper we study the effect of different types of technological regime changes on the evolution of industry concentration and wage inequality. Using a calibrated agent-based macroeconomic framework, the Eurace@Unibi model, we consider scenarios where the new regime is characterized by more...
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