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Employing the Gini coefficient to measure participation inequality in treatment-focused Digital Health Social Networks. [PDF]
Netw Model Anal Health Inform Bioinform, 2016 van Mierlo T, Hyatt D, Ching AT.
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Pension Systems (Un)sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties.
Burkhard Heer +2 more
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Inequality of Opportunity in a Multiperiod Framework
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers a simple model to evaluate and measure inequality of opportunity in a multiperiod framework, in which both circumstances and effort may change over time. We adopt a norm‐based approach and an axiomatic methodology: we first characterise two alternative definitions of a ‘fair distribution’, associated respectively with the ex ...
Domenico Moramarco +2 more
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Inequality of Opportunity in Wealth: Levels, Trends and Drivers in Germany
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper studies inequality of opportunity (IOp) in individual net wealth in Germany from 2002 to 2019 using the Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP). Applying the ex‐ante IOp framework, we quantify the share of wealth inequality attributable to immutable circumstances and benchmark it against IOp in gross labour earnings.
Daniel Graeber +2 more
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Association between journal citation distribution and impact factor: a novel application of the Gini coefficient. [PDF]
J Am Coll Cardiol, 2015 Nuti SV +5 more
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Leading the Charge: The Role of Women in Municipal Budgeting
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender inclusion and diversity have become increasingly important in local governance as a tool to improve equitable public decision‐making. Despite these efforts, the representation of women in leadership roles, particularly those heading initiatives such as social equity budgeting (SEB), varies greatly by municipality.
Saman Afshan
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Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demographers have a rich understanding of the fertility transitions that have been observed in many contexts. Yet, we lack evidence to explain whether long‐run declines in fertility levels are accompanied by simultaneous changes in reproductive variability.
Ewa Batyra, Ben Wilson
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Is Capitalism Bad for Democracy? A Review of Lisa Herzog's The Democratic Marketplace
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In The Democratic Marketplace, Lisa Herzog offers a damning indictment of democratic capitalism. Among other things, she argues that capitalism has led to increased inequality, fosters an unhealthy culture of competition, that it is bad for the environment, and that it is ultimately bad for democracy itself.
Adam F. Gibbons
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Distribution of hospital beds in Tehran Province based on Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve from 2010 to 2012. [PDF]
Electron Physician, 2015 Asl IM +6 more
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The examination of policy evolution has important practical implications, but current literature often only evaluates changing policy goals and instruments at the macro‐level, overlooking changes that occur at the more granular, micro‐level of policy text.
Graham Ambrose +1 more
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