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Inequality, Tolerance, and Growth [PDF]
This paper argues for the importance of individuals’ tolerance of inequality for economic growth. By using the political ideology of governments as a measure of revealed tolerance of inequality, the paper shows that controlling for ideology improves the ...
Bjørnskov, Christian
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Measuring inequality in a cross-tabulation with ordered categories: from the Gini coefficient to the Tog coefficient [PDF]
, 2000 This paper introduces the Tog coefficient, which can be used to measure the level of inequality in a cross-tabulation of two ordinal-level variables. The Gini coefficient is a standard measure of income inequality which has been adapted by other authors ...
Lampard, Richard
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AIChE Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flexibility is a crucial characteristic of industrial systems that face increasing volatilities and is therefore essential to ensure feasible operation under uncertainty. Flexibility is often closely tied to the design of a system, and careful consideration must be taken to understand the trade‐off between design cost and operational ...
Jnana Sai Jagana +3 more
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Second-Chance Alternatives and Maintained Inequality in Access to Higher Education in Israel
Social Inclusion, 2019 Students are expected to obtain a matriculation diploma during their high school years. Throughout the world, it is considered as a precondition to gaining access to higher education.
Eyal Bar-Haim, Carmel Blank
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This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust.
Jordahl, Henrik
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study presents a new sampling‐based model predictive control minimizing reverse Kullback‐Leibler divergence to quickly find a local optimum. In addition, a modified Nesterov's acceleration method is introduced for faster convergence. The method is effective for real‐time simulations and real‐world operability improvement on a force‐driven mobile ...
Taisuke Kobayashi, Kota Fukumoto
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Needs-based provision of medical care to nursing home residents: protocol for a mixed-methods study
BMJ Open, 2019 Introduction Nursing home residents typically have greater needs for medical care than community-dwelling elderly. However, restricted cognitive abilities and limited mobility may impede their access to general practitioners and medical specialists.
Ansgar Gerhardus +12 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Legged robots have advanced in environmental interaction through contact, but most works rely on fixed contact sequences. This work presents a new method based on an indirect optimization method for legged robots to automatically generate contact sequences for complex movements.
Yaowei Chen, Jie Zhang, Ming Lyu
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Color me honest! Time pressure and (dis)honest behavior
Frontiers in Behavioral EconomicsWe introduce three modifications to the die-in-a-cup paradigm to gain novel insights into dishonest behavior under time pressure. The regular die is substituted with a custom one that has a distinct color on each side as a way of manipulating familiarity
Carina I. Hausladen +2 more
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Inequality, Social Respectability, Political Power and Environmental Devastation [PDF]
Although healthy societies may require a degree of material inequality, higher levels of inequality have been linked to negative social consequences ranging from poorer health to lessened democracy.
Jon D. Wisman
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