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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Global Public HealthWhen the economy (economic inequality) develops to a certain level, does the impact of economic inequality on health inequality change? Through threshold regression, this study analyses the impact of city-level economic inequality on the absolute and ...
Yao Yao, Yujie Cui, Wei Luan, Gordon Liu
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Class structure and economic inequality [PDF]
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2007 Existing empirical schemas of class structure do not specify the capitalist class in an adequate manner. We propose a schema in which the specification of capitalist households is based on wealth thresholds. Individuals in non-capitalist households are assigned class locations based on their position in the social labour process. The schema is designed
Edward N. Wolff, Ajit Zacharias
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income and Economic Growth [PDF]
IMF Working Papers, 2019 Abstract Despite the firm consensus that income inequality is intrinsically undesirable, its impact on economic growth is much disputed. We posit that the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is conditioned by the level of equality of opportunity.
Shekhar Aiyar, Christian Ebeke
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International Journal of Communication, 2017 The article analyzes the German public debate on economic inequality, as represented in two series on inequality in the business and finance sections of the two leading national quality newspapers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and Sueddeutsche ...
Julian Bank
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Democracy, Income Inequality and Economic Growth Nexus: The Case of Pakistan [PDF]
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 2017 Democracy, income inequality and economic development are considered to be interlinked with one another in a complex way. The weak growth of political institutions and uncertainty about the continuity of democratic regimes in Pakistan has important ...
Rafi Amir-ud-Din (Corresponding author)
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Socio-economic inequality: essence, cyclicality of the dynamics [PDF]
, 2021 Vasylyna Podliesna
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Gut microbiome is not associated with mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease
npj Parkinson's DiseaseGut microbiome differences between people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and control subjects without Parkinsonism are widely reported, but potential alterations related to PD with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have yet to be comprehensively explored ...
Velma T. E. Aho +9 more
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