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Paolo Verme
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 114
Citations - 2064
Paolo Verme is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Welfare. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 110 publications receiving 1702 citations. Previous affiliations of Paolo Verme include World Bank Group & University of Turin.
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The origins of the Gini index: extracts from Variabilità e Mutabilità (1912) by Corrado Gini
TL;DR: In this paper, the 100th anniversary of the Gini index is celebrated by providing the original formulae of Gini's index, as well as some of the developments that derived from the study of the index.
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Happiness, Freedom and Control
TL;DR: This article found that the degree of control that we think we have over choice regulates how we value freedom of choice and that each individual faces a freedom ''threshold'' beyond which more freedom turns into disutility.
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Happiness, freedom and control
Paolo Verme,Paolo Verme +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that people who believe that the outcome of their actions depends on internal factors such as effort and skills (the ‘internals’) have a greater appreciation of freedom of choice and derive utility from it.
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Life Satisfaction and Income Inequality
Paolo Verme,Paolo Verme +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that income inequality has a negative and significant effect on life satisfaction and that this relation is easily obscured or reversed by multicollinearity generated by the use of country and year fixed effects.
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Life satisfaction and income inequality
TL;DR: This article found that income inequality has a negative and significant effect on life satisfaction and that this relation is easily obscured or reversed by multicollinearity generated by the use of country and year fixed effects.