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We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
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This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … ambition over time, which explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with … conclusions about the role of marital sorting in rising income inequality. …
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We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …
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This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … ambition over time, and the marriage market explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting … matters crucially for conclusions about how education-based marriage market sorting contributes to rising income inequality. …
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estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …
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estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …
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an inequality measure and this is combined with the Cost of Living Index to produce an overall welfare measure. This …This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price …
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an inequality measure and this is combined with the Cost of Living Index to produce an overall welfare measure. This …This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price …
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We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
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and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …
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