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well as for theories about inequality, institutions, and politics more broadly. In this article, we present the first … multidimensional comparative analysis of the development of inequality in Sweden. Unlike most other studies, we combine a variety of … measures to provide a more comprehensive view of inequality. Our findings reveal that, although the share of income and wealth …
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This paper provides estimates of persistence in historical UK data on life expectancy applying fractional integration methods to both an annual series from 1842 to 2019 and a 5-year average from 1543 to 2019. The results indicate that the former exhibits an upward trend and is persistent but...
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Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning … inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped by the prehistorical out …-of-Africa migration. Exploring the roots of inequality within the US population, we find supporting evidence for our hypothesis: variation …
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The paper argues that household budgets are the best starting point for investigating a number of big questions related to the evolution of the living standards during the last two-three centuries. If one knows where to look, historical family budgets are more abundant than might be suspected....
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This paper tracks economists' rising, yet elusive and unstable interest in collective decision mechanism after World War II. We replace their examination of voting procedures and social welfare functions in the 1940s and 1950s in the context of their growing involvement with policy-making....
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Taxes have existed in Denmark since at least as far back as the earliest surviving written sources. This paper concerns the role taxation has had on shaping Danish society alongside the development of Danish democracy
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The U.S. corporate income tax – and in particular the double taxation of corporate income – has long been one of the most criticized and the most stubbornly persistent aspects of the federal revenue system. Unlike in most other industrialized countries, corporate income is taxed twice, first...
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Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …
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