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recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …
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further increased inequality particularly in successful groups. Finally, the cause of one's wealth was largely irrelevant …
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Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large...
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these two sets of results. This kind of validation of experienced utility via direct comparison with decision utility …
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This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
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The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study combines the latest data to examine the relationship...
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We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured … the role of economic constraints, we experimentally induced thoughts about poverty-related problems, using priming … techniques. We find that thinking about poverty increases the preference to consume entertainment early and to delay work. Using …
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social stress by reducing income inequality, which is typically measured by the Gini coefficient. Decomposing the coefficient …
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Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and …
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traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …
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