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Gini coefficient, GDP per capita and COVID-19 mortality: a systematic review of ecologic studies. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Abbasi AF   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Crime: An Asymmetric Relationship

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of US counties for the period 2010–2018, this study is the first to isolate the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on crime rates. We employ an estimator that controls for joint endogeneity of regressors and find a crime inducing effect of rising uncertainty for violent crime.
Leo M. Doerr, Stefan Wilhelm
wiley   +1 more source

Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the impact of local political institutions on inequality in eastern England between c. 1350 and c. 1550. Specifically, it examines the extent to which wealthier individuals controlled local governance structures in the form of manor courts through linking the identities of individuals who served as manorial officials ...
Spike Gibbs
wiley   +1 more source

Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the distributive effects of personal income taxation in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. We estimate the evolution of marginal and average effective tax rates across the income distribution and calculate the corresponding indices of progressivity and ...
Sara Torregrosa‐Hetland, Oriol Sabaté
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Equality in Primary Health Care Budget Allocation in Iran, Using the Gini Coefficient Method. [PDF]

open access: yesMed J Islam Repub Iran
Barouni M   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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