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IZA World of Labor, 2019 Economists use various metrics for measuring income inequality. Here, the most commonly used measures—the Lorenz curve, the Gini coefficient, decile ratios, the Palma ratio, and the Theil index—are discussed in relation to their benefits and limitations.
Ija Trapeznikova
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Separate & Unequal: How Higher Education Reinforces the Intergenerational Reproduction of White Racial Privilege [PDF]
, 2013 Clearly class is a powerful cross-cutting factor in explaining postsecondary differences among all students. Yet, controlling for income, race matters: taken together, lower-income AfricanAmerican and Hispanic students just don't do as well as lower ...
Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Globalization and Health, 2020 Unfair differences in healthcare access, utilisation, quality or health outcomes exist between and within countries around the world. Improving health equity is a stated objective for many governments and international organizations.
James Love-Koh +5 more
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Dynamics in the Fitness-Income plane: Brazilian states vs World countries [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper we introduce a novel algorithm, called Exogenous Fitness, to calculate the Fitness of subnational entities and we apply it to the states of Brazil.
Andrade, José S. +4 more
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Ethnicity and the surgical management of early invasive breast cancer in over 164 000 women
BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 This large national study examined in detail the patterns in surgical management of early breast cancer in women of different ethnicities. Allowing for different patterns of age and stage at presentation, the surgical management of early breast cancer was similar in all women, regardless of ethnicity. All treated the same Background Limited information
T. Gathani +4 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2019 A fundamental societal concern in energy system transitions is the distribution of benefits and costs across populations. A recent transition, the US shale gas boom, has dramatically altered the domestic energy outlook and global markets; however, the ...
Erin N Mayfield +4 more
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Перераспределительные эффекты налогов и трансфертов: опыт Китая [PDF]
, 2017 Устойчивый и быстрый экономический рост Китая в течение последних десятилетий привел не только к повышению уровня доходов на душу населения, но также и к серьезному разрыву в доходах отдельных категорий граждан.
Liu Baihui, Лиу Байхиу
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Mainstream Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Contemporary Ophthalmology
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This review explores the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in ophthalmology, focusing on four key data types: medical imaging, electronic health records, robotic‐assisted surgery, and genomics. It examines the structural features, use cases, clinical goals, and evaluation metrics of various AI algorithms, while also introducing emerging ...
Shiqi Yin +9 more
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