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The effect of extreme wildfire exposure on energy poverty: Evidence from Australia's Black Saturday bushfires

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study assesses the effects of the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires (BSB), which primarily occurred in rural regions of Victoria and represent the deadliest bushfire event in Australia's history, on household energy poverty. Using a linear panel event‐study, an entropy‐balanced event‐study, and a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD ...
Yitian Wang, Russell Smyth
wiley   +1 more source

Education, Inequality and Income Inequality [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements ...
Daniele Checchi
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indian Income Inequality, 1922‐2015: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj?

open access: yesThe Review of Income and Wealth, 2019
We combine household surveys and national accounts, as well as recently released tax data in a systematic way to track the dynamics of Indian income inequality from 1922 to 2015. According to our benchmark estimates, the share of national income accruing
L. Chancel, T. Piketty
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The impact of renewable energy consumption on income inequality: Evidence from developed countries

open access: yesRenewable Energy, 2020
Despite of the great number of studies on the impact that income gap has on the environment, we still do not know much about whether renewable energy could be a factor affecting income inequality.
Mert Topcu, C. Tugcu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Life satisfaction and income inequality [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found evidence on a positive, negative or non significant relation.
openaire   +4 more sources

Regional Income Inequality in Lithuania

open access: yesEconomy of Region, 2020
The problem of income inequality is globally relevant, receiving the attention of both scientists and pol- iticians. Lithuania as a small country has made significant progress in approaching the standard of liv- ing in Western Europe. However, there are still differences in economic growth between separate popula- tion groups.
Laskiene, Daiva   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Male Income, Female Income, and Household Income Inequality in Israel: A Decomposition Analysis

open access: yes, 2009
Differentiating between the sensitivity of income inequality to male income and female income and decomposing inequality by income determinants, we find that total income inequality is less sensitive to female income variability or the level of female ...
Kimhi, Ayal
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Reframing Trisomy 13 and 18 Care: Moving Beyond the Myth of “Incompatibility With Life” in a South African and Low‐and Middle‐Income Country Context

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trisomy 13 (T13) and trisomy 18 (T18) have historically been described as “lethal” or “incompatible with life,” contributing to diagnosis‐based limitations of care. Contemporary evidence demonstrates greater heterogeneity in survival and outcomes than previously recognized, including among selected children receiving intensive care or cardiac ...
H. L. Malherbe   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The long-term evolution of national income inequality and rural poverty in China

open access: yes, 2020
Using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988–2013, we investigate long-term changes in national income inequality and rural poverty in China. National income inequality rose markedly to 2007 and thereafter fell
Chu-Liang Luo, Shi Li, Terry Sicular
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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