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Intergenerational financial transfers and health in a national sample from France
Jusot, Florence; Khlat, Myriam; Scodellaro, Claire - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Financial transfers from parents to their adult children are a growing trend in contemporary societies, and this study investigates the relation of those transfers to their beneficiaries' health in France. In the 2005 nationally representative Gender and Generation Survey, nearly 6% of the...
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Social Mobility and Colonial Legacy in Five African Countries
Bossuroy, Thomas; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
How fluid are African societies? This paper uses wide-sample nationally representative surveys to set down the first comparative measurement of the extent and features of the social mobility of men in five countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Intergenerational as well as intra-generational mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706587
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Preferences for redistribution : normative rationality and self-interest
Le Clainche, Christine; Wittwer, Jérôme - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
for redistribution are influenced by individual beliefs on the origins of social inequality and public values. The first …This article studies the formation of preferences regarding redistribution. Its aim is to demonstrate how preferences … section shows, through a microeconomic model, how preferences on redistribution can be understood as the outcome of “normative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717668
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La croissance est-elle pro-pauvres au Mali ?
Günther, Isabel; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Raffinot, Marc - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty reduction … dynamics of poverty alleviation. For promoting the equality of opportunities and poverty reduction, redistribution issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073696
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Equality of opportunity and other equity principles in the context of developing countries
Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
I propose a personal reading of some theories of social justice at a moment when the issue of equality or equity appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality of opportunity principle. After having briefly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708843
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The Political Dimension of Inequality During Economic Development
Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)
European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to … dedicated to the politics of inequality on the one hand, to political inequalities on the other hand. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074085
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Social health inequalities among older Europeans : the contribution of social and family background
Jusot, Florence; Tubeuf, Sandy - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
in Europe are explained largely by individuals’ current social conditions, particularly wealth. Nevertheless, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166434
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Inequalities between retirees and workers: an empirical model to capture the effect of taxation
Legendre, Bérangère - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
exemptions. Pensions are more equally distributed than income received from employment, and intra-cohort inequality does not seem … to be a more convincing explanation. What is the impact of differential taxation on the inequality between retirees and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708909
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Contribution of aggregate and sectoral shocks to the dynamics of inventories : an empirical study with french and american data
Jacques, Jean-François; Salem, Mélika Ben - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1999
The aim of this paper is the identification of structural shocks which affect the dynamics of sectoral inventories, through an analysis of the forecasting error variance decomposition. This identification is achieved using the American and French time series of aggregate production, sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708365
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Poverty alleviation policy targeting: a review of experiences in developing countries
Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Olivier, Anne; Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707881