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Which Economic Sectors Influence Average Household Income? A Spatial Econometric Study of Thailand’s 76 Provinces

open access: yesEconomies
This study investigates the impact of various economic sectors on household income in Thailand. It is conducted in light of the substantial “digital wallet” scheme initiated by the Thai government, with the goal of providing empirical evidence and ...
Viriya Taecharungroj
doaj   +1 more source

How Income Mobility Affects Income Inequality: US Evidence in the 1980s and the 1990s

open access: yes, 2011
This study examines income mobility and income inequality in the 1980s and 1990s. The results show that income mobility in the 1980s differed from mobility in the 1990s.
Hungerford, Thomas
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Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
wiley   +1 more source

Informal Transfers in Comparisons of Income Distributions: Lessons from Rich and Middle-Income Countries

open access: yes, 2018
Developing countries rely more heavily on financial transfers between private households for economic welfare. Using data from three middle income and three high income countries in the Luxembourg Income Study Database, this paper examines the effects of
Cai, Yixia, Evans, Martin
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What Really Drives Agri‐Environment‐Climate Measures' Adoption? Mandatory Requirements, Behavioral Traits, and Structural Factors in the CAP Green Architecture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Logarithmic Progressive Income Tax

open access: yes, 2015
Until now the progressivity of the personal income tax has been arbitrarily set by Congress. Here we propose that logarithmic progression in the form t/g = M log g + B, should be used.
Briskin, Lawrence
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Promoting Healthier Drinking: Evidence From a Vignette Experiment on Contextual and Informational Drivers of Dealcoholized Wine Choices

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Gender dimensions of quality of life": The determinants of life satisfaction among South Africans residing in the Gauteng province-Using a multilevel psychodemographic analysis of the GCRO's quality of life survey (2009-2024).

open access: yesPLoS ONE
This study examined gender-related differences in life satisfaction among 70,314 South Africans (33,325 males and 36,989 females) using data from the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (2009-2024).
Monica Ewomazino Akokuwebe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Personal Income Tax to Mitigate Widening Income Inequality: the Case of Japan

open access: yes, 2007
The Japanese personal income tax system has been designed to mitigate the tax burden by granting generous deductions and by employing a steep marginal tax curve.
Tajika, Ejii, Yashio, Hiroyuki
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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