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French Abstract: Au cours de l'histoire, rien n'a tué plus d'êtres humains que les maladies infectieuses et la fièvre hémorragique. Bien que les taux de mortalité dus aux pandémies aient chuté de près de 1 % par an dans le monde, environ 0,8 % par an, tout au long du XXe siècle, le...
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Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases. Although, death rates from pandemics dropped globally by about 0.8 % per year, all the way through the 20th century, the number of new infectious diseases like Sars, HIV and Covid-19 increased by nearly fourfold...
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national surveys on health and height-by-age data from the European Community Panel, biological welfare trends of Europeans in … late twentieth century and the strong space and territorial inequality mainly associated to environmental factors in the … health. …
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Within the area of Behavioral game theory, we focus on a specific context, namely, on a game we called the Alternative traveler's dilemma. In this context, we observe that participants tend to choose strictly dominated strategies. In order to explain similar tendencies in other games,...
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that they are willing to compensate those individuals who consider that they are less well-off because of the inequality in …
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The influence of relative wealth on fairness considerations is analyzed in an ultimatum game experiment in which … participants receive large and widely unequal initial endowments. Subjects initially demonstrate a concern for fairness. With time … however, behavior becomes at odds with both subgame perfection and fairness. Evidence of learning is detected for both …
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From the theoretical discussion in uniformity and income distribution, the aim of the following remarks is to propose a causal model in order to its explanation. Economic growth process seeks for equity in income distribution. Notwithstanding turns out to be insufficient to reduce poverty, in a...
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inequality among households. In particular, I stress that shocks to labor incomes suffice to generate observable differences …
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Inequality in Bolivia is normally measured through income. However, the construction of a socio-economic index (ISE …), using the four available censuses 1976, 1992, 2001 and 2012, permits to analyze inequality in long-term as well as under a …
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