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We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour and identify … factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average …
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We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour and identify … factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209969
The degree of choice households have over their consumption expenditure is critical in deciding their economic class. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our...
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580510
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607436
debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887379
debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931566
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …
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Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by developing a new … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two idely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …
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