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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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Groundings, 2015 The Gini coefficient, one of the most widely used inequality measures in economics, is thought to report income disparity with a reliable degree of objectivity. However, a critical assessment of the Gini’s implicit normative assumptions reveals that this
Max Schröder
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Rankings of Income Distributions: A Note on Intermediate Inequality Indices [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of several intermediate inequality measures, paying special attention to whether inequality rankings between income distributions are affected by the monetary units in which incomes
Coral del Río, Olga Alonso-Villar
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman +1 more
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On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility [PDF]
This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income.
Aaberge, Rolf, Mogstad, Magne
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Desigualdade entre estados na distribuição da renda no Brasil
Economia Aplicada, 1997 Using data on income distribution among economically active persons it is shown that from 1970 to 1980 there was a substantial decrease in the interstate inequality in Brazil, ratifying results obtained from data on per capita product of the states ...
Rodolfo Hoffmann
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator [PDF]
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices.
Frick, Joachim R., Ziebarth, Nicolas R.
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Trade Realignments and the Need for Integrated Modeling Research in Latin America's Agri‐Food Sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Emiliano Lopez Barrera
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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On the Problem of Inference for Inequality Measures for Heavy-Tailed Distributions [PDF]
The received wisdom about inference problems for inequality measures is that these are caused by the presence of extremes in samples drawn from heavy-tailed distributions.
Schluter, C.
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