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Scientific DataPrivate wealth, as well as its distribution and intergenerational transmission have become much-debated issues. However, existing evidence remains fragmented, context-dependent, and sometimes contested. This data descriptor introduces the Graduate Center
Maximilian Longmuir +12 more
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Assessing the Potential Impacts of Innovative New Policy Proposals on Poverty in the United States
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2018 This article provides estimates of the potential anti-poverty impacts of eight proposals presented in this double issue of RSF. Using the 2016 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey and the Census Bureau and Bureau of ...
Christopher Wimer +2 more
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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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A Renter’s Tax Credit to Curtail the Affordable Housing Crisis
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2018 To address the housing affordability crisis for low-income Americans, we argue for a refundable renter’s tax credit. The proposed credit would be delivered through the tax code, reach a broad segment of renters, and target those with high housing cost ...
Sara Kimberlin +2 more
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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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The Annals of Probability, 2004 In a celebrated work by Hoeffding [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 58 (1963) 13-30], several inequalities for tail probabilities of sums M_n=X_1+... +X_n of bounded independent random variables X_j were proved. These inequalities had a considerable impact on the development of probability and statistics, and remained unimproved until 1995 when Talagrand [Inst.
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On Carleson’s inequality [PDF]
Journal of Inequalities and Applications, 2018 We present a new proof of Hardy's inequality by giving an [Formula: see text] version of Carleson's inequality.
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Frontiers in Aging NeuroscienceUnderrepresented populations, often characterized by minority ethnicity, sex/gender or low socioeconomic status, have a higher risk burden and more adverse lifetime experiences of conditions negatively impacting cognitive health than better represented ...
Anja K. Leist, Eva Teyssier, Jure Mur
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Assessing the micro-level impact of COVID- 19 lockdowns on urban households’ economic well-being
Discover CitiesIn this empirical study, we investigated the impact of the COVID- 19 lockdown on the economic well-being of individuals in urban Ghana, using cross-sectional survey data.
Benjamin Amoah, Anthony Amoah
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