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A Rethink on Measuring Health Inequalities Using the Gini Coefficient [PDF]
Objective- We show that a standardized Gini coefficient that takes into account the feasible range of health inequality for a given health attribute is a better instrument than the normal Gini coefficient for quantifying inter-individual health ...
Dennis Petrie, Kam Ki Tang
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Cogent Food & AgricultureAgainst the backdrop of intensifying global climate governance, improving agricultural carbon emission efficiency has become essential for advancing green agricultural transformation.
Lingli Guo, Hao Zhu, Songyu Jiang
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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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Spatial Decomposition of Inequality [PDF]
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Wan, Guanghua, Shorrocks, Anthony
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019 Background The public health workforce (PHW) is a key component of a country’s public health system. Since the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in 2003, the scale of PHW in China has been continuously expanding, but policymakers and ...
Weiqin Cai, Chengyue Li, Mei Sun, Mo Hao
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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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GINI DP 4: Inequality Decompositions [PDF]
We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition meth ods can be reconciled with regression methodology used in the recent liter ature. We also highlight some pitfalls that arise from uncritical use of the regression approach.
Carlo V. Fiorio, Frank Cowell
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Artificial Intelligence and Punctuated Equilibrium: Shaping Government Attention in the Digital Age
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do government attention and policy agendas shift when information constraints are relaxed through technological advancement? Punctuated equilibrium theory links agenda‐setting dynamics to governments' limited information‐processing capabilities, yet we know little about whether and how technology improvement such as artificial intelligence
Shuo Chen, Yiran Li, Yuzheng Wang
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New trading risk indexes: application of the shapley value in finance [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to offer new risk indicators that enable one to classify securities of a portfolio according to their risk degrees. These indexes are issued from a new method of the covariance decomposition based on the Shapley Value.
stephane mussard, virginie terraza
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The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Among economists, the analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates parent–child persistence in some outcome of interest, such as income.
Adrian Adermon +2 more
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