Browsing by Subject "Inequality"
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Calculating Comparable Statistics from Incomparable Surveys, with an Application to Poverty in India
(2006)Applied economists are often interested in studying trends in important economic indicators, such as inequality or poverty, but comparisons over time can be made impossible by changes in data collection methodology. We describe ... -
Context and Preference Formation: The Social and Political Origins of Support for Redistribution
(2012)When do individuals feel that economic inequality needs to be corrected through redistributive government policy, such as progressive taxes or social spending? Using a cross-national data set of public opinion across both ... -
Economic Insecurity, Political Inequality, and the Well-Being of American Families
(2020)This dissertation explores the interrelated dynamics of economic and political inequality, economic insecurity, and psychological well-being through three connected empirical studies. The first study adjudicates between ... -
Gender, Institutions, and Punishment: Examining the Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women
(2020)While men account for 93 percent of the U.S. prison population, women have seen an increase of over 700 percent in incarceration rates since the 1980s. Despite this, most sociological and criminological research examines ... -
Institutions and inequality in single-party regimes a comparative analysis of vietnam and China
(Comparative Politics, 2011-07-01)Despite the fact that China and Vietnam have been the world's two fastest growing economies over the past two decades,their income inequality patterns are very different. An examination of the political institutions in the ... -
Models of Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistribution
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Urban Biased Social Policies and the Urban-Rural Divide in China
(2015)This thesis provides a case study of the urban-rural divide and its relationship to public polices in China. By utilizing multiple data sources from both government statistics and independent surveys, this study analyzes ... -
Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas
(2008)Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no or few observations are available. Census data are more plentiful, but typically exclude income ...
