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Clark, Andrew E. - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...

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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

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The Global Inequality Boomerang

Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...

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Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2015

Hammar, Olle - 2017

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …

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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence

Baez, Javier - 2011

-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation of human capital, focusing on consumption, nutrition, education and …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long …

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Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?

Andrews, Dan - 2010

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...

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The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined...

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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria : A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2023

inequality across expenditure sources. Finally, our results suggest that education and living in an urban area are significant …

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Class Origin, Family Culture, and Intergenerational Correlation of Education in Rural China

Sato, Hiroshi - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from … a large survey of households. Three generations who completed education during the period from pre-1949 to the beginning … of the 2000s are included. The focus is on the influence of family class status (chengfen) on offspring education. Our …

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The Effect of Firm-Level Investment on Inequality and Poverty Around the World

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Watson, Ethan; Yildiz, Serhat - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively associated with various measures of income inequality. This...

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