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Re: What is Wealth Inequality?

Studies in Social Justice, 2022
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Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa
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Wealth taxation in the United States

Public Sector Economics, 2020
The paper analyzes the fiscal effects of a Swiss-type tax on household wealth, with a $120,000 exemption and marginal tax rates running from 0.05 to 0.3 percent on $2.4 million or more of wealth.
Edward N. Wofff
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The Widening Wealth Inequality as a Contributor to Increasing Household Carbon Emissions

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The Sustainable Development Goals call for taking urgent action to combat climate change and reduce inequalities. However, the related actions have not been effective.
Xiaodi Qin, Haitao Wu, Xiaofang Zhang, Wei Wang   +3 more
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Growth Effects of Wealth Inequality Through Transmission Channels

Economies
In light of the substantial rise in economic inequality in recent decades across the majority of economies, the relationship between inequality and economic growth has garnered significant attention.
Seyed Armin Motahar, Siab Mamipour
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Malaysia Household Wealth Distribution: Current Evidence and Future Prospects

International Journal of Management Studies, 2012
The paper studies the distribution and inequality of wealth among the household per capita in Malaysia, using the 2007 Malaysia’s Household Income Survey (HIS) data. Consistent with findings from other countries, the distribution of wealth is more skewed
Muhammed Abdul Khalid
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Some problems in Piketty: An internal critique [PDF]

, 2016
Thomas Piketty’s evidence on wealth distribution trends in Capital in the Twenty- First Century shows that – contra his own interpretation – there has been little rise in wealth inequality in Europe and America since the 1970s.
Tapper, Alan
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Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

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, Thomas L. Marsh   +1 more
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How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

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, Laura Meriluoto, Richard Watt   +2 more
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Beyond the perception of present economic inequality: How people construe past, present and future wealth gaps.

PLoS ONE
People tend to misperceive economic inequality levels in their country. However, studies investigating such misperceptions focused mainly on appraisals of present inequality.
Andrea Scatolon, Silvia Galdi, Carmen Cervone, Lucia Mannetti, Anne Maass   +4 more
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
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