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Choosing inequality: how economic security fosters competitive regimes

Lenger, Alexander; Wolf, Stephan; Goldschmidt, Nils - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2020) 2, pp. 315-346

of the first round, leading to a pattern of societal stratification. Participants are informed individually about points …

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Consumer’s Surplus with a Racial Apology? Black Relative to Non-Black Inequality in the Welfare Gains of Fuel-Efficient Cars and Trucks

Elu, Juliet; Price, Gregory - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 42 (2015) 1, pp. 135-154

This paper considers whether race conditions the welfare gains associated with the purchase of cars and trucks that comply with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Standards . We utilize data from the General Social Survey on respondent stated...

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Cumulative Structural Disadvantage and Racial Health Disparities: The Pathways of Childhood Socioeconomic Influence

Pais, Jeremy - In: Demography 51 (2014) 5, pp. 1729-1753

<Para ID="Par1">Cumulative structural disadvantage theory posits two major sources of endogenous selection in shaping racial health disparities: a race-based version of the theory anticipates a racially distinct selection process, whereas a social class-based version anticipates a racially similar process. To...</para>

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Education, Income Distribution, and Growth: The Local Connection

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

stratification. Imperfect capital markets are not necessary, but will compound these other sources. Second, stratification makes … to reduce stratification, it may improve educational achievement in poor communities much less than it lowers it in … policy to improve both equity and efficiency. Fifth, because of the cumulative nature of the stratification process, it is …

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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where …

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Income Inequality, School Choice and the Endogenous Gentrification of US Cities

Ghidi, Paololo Melindi - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012

Why in some urban areas do rich and poor households cohabit at the community level while, in others, we observe a sorting by income? To answer this question I develop a two-community general equilibrium framework of school quality, residential choice and tax decision. The model predicts that in...

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