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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality. Further …
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The problem of land inequality has attracted renewed interest in the development literature due to its potential …
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's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians. In a nationally representative US sample (N=3,257), we find that around … significantly reduces people's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians in a pattern detection hiring task, we find …
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Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually …
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and inequality. …
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Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the emerging literatures in public health and economics on the...
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The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...
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growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typicalsurvey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …
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Brain drain BD, human capital h, and inequality's institutional impact is examined in a model where a rent …-shaped function of h, with minimum at 0 < h1 < 1; iii) the likelihood that Q improves with BD falls with international inequality; iv …) the likelihood that Q improves with h falls with domestic inequality; v) the likelihood Q improves with h falls (rises …
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Governments face a potential trade-off between provision for the growing population in retirement and the support of working-age households with low income. Using EUROMOD-based microdata from 28 countries, we (a) quantify the redistribution to the pensioner and non-pensioner populations, (b)...
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