How Does Progressivity Affect the Tax Cut Multiplier?
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the targeting of personal income tax cuts affect the output multiplier? This paper provides quantitative evidence using a heterogeneous‐agent New‐Keynesian model calibrated to match US distributions of income, wealth, marginal tax rates, and marginal propensities to consume.
Christian Gillitzer
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Measuring Equality in Primary Health Care Budget Allocation in Iran, Using the Gini Coefficient Method. [PDF]
Med J Islam Repub IranBarouni M +5 more
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Social Status, Inequality, and Redistribution
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We explore implications of social status concerns for redistribution, income inequality, and growth in a political economy framework. Salience of such concerns leads to a propagation mechanism, whereby initial income inequality and reduced willingness to redistribute income reinforce each other, potentially giving rise to multiple steady ...
Mark Gradstein, Luigi Ventura
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INEQUALITY WITHIN AND AMONG NATIONS [PDF]
This paper looks at both within country and among country inequality. In the spirit of Dalton[1920] and Atkinson[1970] this paper reports estimates of the welfare loss arising from inequality. The paper also explores the implications of Duesenberry style
Michael C. Lovell
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A Horse Race of Machine‐Learning Methods to Predict Banking Crises
International Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To examine if one machine‐learning model can consistently elucidate financial vulnerabilities, both over time and across levels of development, this paper applies 13 machine‐learning algorithms to evaluate comparative forecasting performance across several banking crises.
Emile du Plessis
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Correction: Standard Deviation vs. Gini Coefficient: Effects of Different Indicators of Classroom Status Hierarchy on Bullying Behavior. [PDF]
J Youth AdolescMalamut ST, Fenneman A, Garandeau CF.
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Linking the Comparison and Graphical Approaches to Bipartite Matching
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary Bipartite record linkage has the goal of identifying observations referring to the same individual, called coreferent observations, across two distinct non‐duplicated datasets. The two main approaches to solve this task are the Fellegi–Sunter model, which relies on pairwise comparisons of observations, and the graphical record linkage model ...
Edoardo Redivo
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Transport consumption inequalities and redistributive effects of taxes: A repeated cross-sectional evaluation on French household data [PDF]
This paper evaluates transport consumption inequalities among French households, investigates their temporal dynamics, and estimates the redistributive effects of taxes on different commodity categories.
Akli Berri
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A Comparative Note on the Reliability of Inequality Indicator Estimates
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The importance of accurate measurement of economic or social inequality is generally accepted. Estimators of its most popular measure, the Gini coefficient, are commonly criticised for becoming increasingly imprecise for increasingly skewed distributions and small to moderate samples, i.e., two phenomena that we face more frequently today. More
Silvia Scarpa +2 more
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Introduction of Application of Gini Coefficient to Heart Rate Variability Spectrum for Mental Stress Evaluation. [PDF]
Arq Bras Cardiol, 2019 Sánchez-Hechavarría ME +6 more
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