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Browsing by Subject "inequality"
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Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-03-03)I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students' GPAs but has little effect on high-scoring students. This ... -
Changes in financial burden, healthcare utilization for cancer patients in East, Central and West China
(2023)Objective: This study aims to investigate the cancer epidemiology and impact of healthcare system reform on patient out-of-pocket expense, presence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE), healthcare utilization, ... -
Diversity and Inequality in Context: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Adolescent Development
(2022)Rising demographic diversity and persistent social inequality are two defining features of youths’ social worlds, and schools and neighborhoods are key developmental contexts where this component of contemporary life plays ... -
Elite Politics and Inequality: The Development of Fiscal Capacity in Authoritarian Regimes
(2015)The ability to raise revenue is one of the most fundamental requirements for state- hood. Without revenues, states are unable to perform even the most basic tasks. In this dissertation I aim to answer the question: When ... -
ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION IN COLOMBIA
(2022)Between 2015 and 2019, approximately 1.8 million Venezuelans fled into neighboring Colombia, increasing Colombia’s population by almost 4%. In this dissertation, I study the effects of this large and unprecedented migration ... -
Horizontal Equity Effects in Energy Regulation
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Household Debt Across the Life Course: An Analysis of the Late Baby Boomers
(2010)As an aggregate, American households have shown rising debt levels over the past few decades, yet we do not understand how debt varies within households over time and what factors influence this variation in a meaningful ... -
Inequality, the Welfare State, and Demographic Change
(2016)This dissertation is a three-part analysis examining how the welfare state in advanced Western democracies has responded to recent demographic changes. Specifically, this dissertation investigates two primary relationships, ... -
Interaction between Geography and Policy: Variation in Development Performance within China's Eastern Zone
(2015)This paper examines the trend of variation in development performance withinChina's Eastern Zone and the underlying mechanism of the changing trend. Empirical descriptions as well as analyses are provided based on the comparison ... -
Long-run relationships, economic shocks and political disagreement - The political economy of populism and polarization
(2021)Why do agents react to economic shocks privileging their identities and distrust of elites over their economic interests? This dissertation argues that this paradox can be explained by the logic of democratic representation. ... -
Poverty and Place in the Context of the American South
(2015)In the United States, poverty has been historically higher and disproportionately concentrated in the American South. Despite this fact, much of the conventional poverty literature in the United States has focused on urban ... -
Qualities or Inequalities?: How Gender Shapes Value in the Market for Contemporary Art
(2021)How does gender inequality persist in the art world today? Or, more generally, what role do social characteristics like gender play in markets for cultural goods, such as art? That is the focus of this research. Using a ... -
Race, Power and Economic Extraction in Benton Harbor, MI
(2016)My dissertation investigates twin financial interventions—urban development and emergency management—in a single small town. Once a thriving city drawing blacks as blue-collar workers during the Great Migration, Benton Harbor, ... -
The Altruistic Rich? Inequality and Other-Regarding Preferences for Redistribution
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The Effects of Women’s Empowerment Messages on Perceptions of Women’s Role in Gender Inequality
(2019)Although women’s underrepresentation in senior level positions in the workplace has multiple causes, women’s self-improvement or “empowerment” at work has recently attracted cultural attention as a solution. For example, ...
