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level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is … completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn to inequality in human capital and focus on a Mincerian production … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …
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The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility...
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migration, reduces climate change, increases North-South inequality if DRTS are significant; (v) a greener technology reduces … long-run migration, provides a double- dividend in favor of the environment, reduces inequality if the migrants' impact to … overall climate change is large. The preference over the policies thus depends on whether the policy maker targets inequality …
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