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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 World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality: A Review of the Economics Literature*
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015 This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in the empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution.
Almas Heshmati
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Political Science Research and MethodsA growing literature explores the effect of economic inequality in citizens’ surrounding environment on their political attitudes and behavior. This literature typically relies on measures of income concentration or gap-size, which reflect under-tested ...
Benjamin J. Newman
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Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures
Econometrica, 1996 Summary: Inequality measures are often used to summarize information about empirical income distributions. However the resulting picture of the distribution and of changes in the distribution can be severely distorted if the data are contaminated. The nature of this distortion will in general depend upon the underlying properties of the inequality ...
Frank A. Cowell +1 more
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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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Education Inequality, Human Capital Inequality and the Kuznets Curve [PDF]
This paper develops an improved measure of human capital. Using a Mincer specification of human capital, the improved measure takes into consideration rates of returns to schooling, education quality, and school dropouts.
K.K.Tang, Lim, A. S. K
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Shock and Vibration, 1994 Two visually meaningful correlation measures are proposed for comparing calculated and measured response histories. One is an error index which is a simplification of RSS (root-sum-square) error factor, and the other is an inequality index that is a ...
Benjamin Whang +2 more
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Indicators of Inequality and Poverty [PDF]
This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and ...
Subramanian, S.
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.A physics‐guided machine learning framework estimates Young's modulus in multilayered multimaterial hyperelastic cylinders using contact mechanics. A semiempirical stiffness law is embedded into a custom neural network, ensuring physically consistent predictions. Validation against experimental and numerical data on C.
Christoforos Rekatsinas +4 more
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Integral Jensen–Mercer and Related Inequalities for Signed Measures with Refinements
MathematicsIn this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the integral Jensen–Mercer inequality and closely related inequalities to be satisfied for finite signed measures.
László Horváth
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