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"For richer, for poorer": savings preferences and choice of spouse

FREMEAUX, Nicolas; ARRONDEL, Luc - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2014

households and also wealth inequalities between households since homogamy cause a divide in the population. …

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Inequalities and Growth in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Region

Basdevant, Olivier; Benicio, Dalmacio; Yakhshilikov, Yorbol - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper applies the work of Berg and Ostry (2011) to the SACU region, to identify how inequalities have played a … role in growth in each of these countries, and elaborates policy options to mitigate the effects of inequalities and foster … growth. Lower income inequalities could lead to significant gains, as SACU countries could almost double the duration of …

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Geographical patterns of overall well-being across municipalities of andalusia

Sánchez-Domínguez, María Ángeles; Chica-Olmo, Jorge; … - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2013

The aim of this paper is to analyse whether the well-being of the 770 municipalities of Andalusia (Spain) in 2009 responded to geographical patterns. We have developed a synthetic index of well-being via the P2 Distance method that incorporates economic and non-economic indicators, and which...

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Socio-Economic Inequalities in Happiness in China and U.S.

Lam, Kit-Chun; Liu, Pak-Wai - In: Social Indicators Research 116 (2014) 2, pp. 509-533

inequalities in happiness beyond income inequality. Based on the two waves of nation-wide survey data on happiness collected by … factors on happiness. Our findings show that socio-economic inequalities increase inequalities in happiness in China. The poor …

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Introduction: Global Environmental Commons: Analytical and Political Challenges in Building Governance Mechanisms

Brousseau, Eric; Dedeurwaerdere, Tom; Jouvet, Pierre-André - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

The interdependency of socio-ecological systems and the increased reach of human activity have led to major political and scientific challenges in the governance of environmental resources. This chapter reviews the state of our knowledge on the matter. The chapter begins by discussing the...

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Social Exclusion in Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

Marshall, Jeffery H.; Calderón, Valentina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of social exclusion in education in the region. Drawing from the micro-data of household surveys,...

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MEASUREMENT OF TERRITORIAL CONVERGENCE. AN ANALYSIS IN THE CASE OF ROMANIA

Neagu, Olimpia - In: Annals - Economy Series 3 (2013) June, pp. 117-125

This paper reviews a number of methods and instruments developed for the analysis of economic inequalities and that can …. Romania experienced a process of economic divergence, a process of widening of inequalities between regions and counties. The … process is more visibile at regions level. Territorial inequalities are explained in a proportion of 71,67%-84,24% by the …

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Qualitative inequalities for squared partial correlations of a Gaussian random vector

Chaudhuri, Sanjay - In: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 66 (2014) 2, pp. 345-367

We describe various sets of conditional independence relationships, sufficient for qualitatively comparing non-vanishing squared partial correlations of a Gaussian random vector. These sufficient conditions are satisfied by several graphical Markov models. Rules for comparing degree of...

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"For richer, for poorer": savings preferences and choice of spouse

Arrondel, Luc; Frémeaux, Nicolas - HAL - 2013

characteristics. These conclusions are decisive in explaining wealth inequalities between households, since homogamy causes a divide …

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Individual preferences and the distribution of wealth

Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - HAL - 2005

For a sub-sample of French households of an Insee wealth survey, we obtain new and relative measures of 5 individual preference parameters : the risk "attitude" (aversion, prudence...), the rate of time depreciation over the life-cycle, the degree of short-term impatience, and the degrees of...

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