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The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly come under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …
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variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social … Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are … usually not included in national or global accounts of income and wealth. In the light of the estimated importance of social …
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This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … that while income inequality is similar to that of the United States (US), wealth inequality is barely one-third that of … SSA as in the US, the share of total wealth accumulated by the income-rich in SSA is one-fifth of its US counterpart. The …
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Wealth and gender inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is measured as the association between subject … competency and wealth and gender using the OECD s Programme for International Student Assessment. Wealth inequity is found to … is found of an association between wealth and competency within schools. Weak evidence is found of wealth mitigating …
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Assets generate and help diversify income, provide collateral to access credit, alleviate liquidity constraints in the face of shocks, and are key inputs into empowerment. Despite the importance of individual-level data on asset ownership and control, and that most assets are owned by...
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While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents' scales. Little is known about this problem. This study uses specially-designed surveys in three countries,...
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Since income is the return on wealth, the total wealth of any given country should be on the order of 20 times its … implication is that the System of National Accounts wealth accounts are incomplete, with the most obvious omission being human …-income) countries yields a mean share of human capital in total wealth of 62 percent -- four times the value of produced capital and 15 …
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This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. The authors use exchange rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to...
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comprehensive, fine-scale, and dynamic measurement of asset wealth at scale. The results indicate that transformer architectures … asset wealth across countries and cities, as well as changes in household asset wealth over time. Experiments that … architectures for hyperlocal and dynamic measurement of wealth in data-scarce environments …
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gender and wealth interact to generate within country inequalities in educational enrollment and attainment. He carries out … multivariate analysis to assess the partial relationship between educational outcomes and gender, wealth, household characteristics …, Western, and Central Africa. 2) Gender gaps are large in a subset of countries, but wealth gaps are large in almost all of the …
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