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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

Gini coefficient and inflation rate

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of this thesis is to study the effect of income inequality on inflation rate in countries of OECD. I analyze the effect of income inequality, measured by the Gini coefficient, on inflation with a panel dataset comprised of 29 OECD countries over the period 2004 - 2013. The dataset was obtained from OECD statistics database and Eurostat database
openaire   +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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