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Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2018 Background Currently, there is no consensus on standard measure that can be routinely part of the health information systems to alert countries to inequalities in health and identify the priority health inequality conditions.
Sherine Shawky DrPH
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Wealth, Inequality, and Altruistic Bequests [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 This paper examines the role of bequests and inter vivos gifts in the U.S. economy, considering their importance in determining (i) the economy's aggregate capital stock, (ii) the distribution of private net worth, and (iii) public policy outcomes and options. It focuses on several recent calibrated simulations.
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Survey Estimates of Wealth Holdings in OECD Countries: Evidence on the Level and Distribution across Selected [PDF]
This paper discusses issues that arise in the comparison of estimates of wealth holdings and their distribution in light of data for selected OECD countries. We find large differences in the level of wealth, depending on whether the mean or median levels
Jantti, Markus, Sierminska, Eva
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Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, EarlyView.Abstract Background Family plays a significant role in children's dental and oral health (DOH) elements, such as children's DOH knowledge and practice, the development of children's dental fear and anxiety (DFA), children's dental visits, and children's DOH status.
Wisnu Fadila +5 more
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"Inequality of the Distribution of Personal Wealth in Germany 1973 - 1998" [PDF]
This paper reports on trends in inequality of the distribution of household disposable wealth in West Germany from 1973 to 1998, and compares the changes in the size distribution of household disposable wealth in West and East Germany between 1993 and ...
Holger Stein, Richard Hauser
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Resilience Practices and Post‐Traumatic Growth Among Sudanese IDPs
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper we examine the resilience of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan who have endured various forms of suffering resulting from being targeted or trapped by militants involved in large‐scale violence. Upon escaping the conflict zones, the civilians exhibit strength, adaptability, and wisdom in the face of various threats to ...
Karina Korostelina +2 more
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Education and Self-Employment: Changes in Earnings and Wealth Inequality [PDF]
The author quantitatively studies the interaction between education and occupation choices and its implication for the relationship between the changes in earnings inequality and the changes in wealth inequality in the United States over the 1983–2001 ...
Yaz Terajima
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The Constitutionality of a National Wealth Tax [PDF]
, 2018 Economic inequality threatens America’s constitutional democracy. Beyond obvious harms to our nation’s social fabric and people’s lives, soaring economic inequality translates into political inequality and corrodes democratic institutions and values. The
Dellinger, Walter E., III, Johnsen, Dawn
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between board composition characteristics and ESG performance in companies from BRICS countries, and to assess how sector sensitivity moderates this relationship. A sample of 2045 BRICS companies was examined using panel data regression with random effects and logistic regression ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos +2 more
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Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequity via Bequests [PDF]
This paper develops, calibrates, and simulates a dynamic 88-period OLG model to study the intergenerational transmission of U.S. wealth inequality via bequests.
Jagadeesh Gokhale +3 more
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