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(In)equality in education and economic development
Sauer, Petra; Zagler, Martin - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 60 (2014), pp. 353-379
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Inequality beyond GDP : a long view
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2021
-weighted) fell in health and education since the late 1920s, due to the globalisation of mass schooling and the health transition … terms but widening in absolute terms. Countries in the middle and lower deciles of the world distribution achieved the … largest relative gain over the last century. Education and political and civil liberties were the main contributors to the …
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When Aiyagari meets Piketty : Growth, Inequality and Capital Shares
Juuti, Toni; Heimonen, Kari; Junttila, Juha-Pekka; … - 2021
We incorporate the division of income between capital and labor into analysis on the relationship between inequality and growth. Using historical data, we document that changes in the top 1 % income shares are positively associated with subsequent growth of per capita GDP when the capital share...
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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101556
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575162
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578752
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Economic development and inequality of opportunity : Kuznets meets the Great Gatsby?
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Moramarco, Domenico; … - 2025
According to the Kuznets hypothesis, inequality first tends to increase and then decrease as a country develops. Whether borne out empirically, this inverted-U Kuznets curve, as a stylized 'fact', has shaped the discourse on economic development and income inequality for decades. In this paper...
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Global challenges in the economics of education : basic skills, natural disasters, and civic engagement
Gust, Sarah - 2025
Sarah Gust führte diese Studie während ihrer Tätigkeit am ifo Institut durch. Die Studie wurde im September 2024 abgeschlossen und als Dissertation an der Volkswirtschaftlichen Fakultät der LMU München angenommen. Sie besteht aus drei eigenständigen empirischen Essays, die...
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Test scores and economic growth: update and extension
Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel; Jordahl, Henrik - 2021
Research indicates that education quality - measured by test scores in international student surveys - predicts …
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