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On the Measurement of Inequality
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In this paper, the problem of comparing two frequency distributions f(u) of an attribute y which for convenience I shall refer to as income is defined as a risk in the theory of decision-making under uncertainty.About:
This article is published in Journal of Economic Theory.The article was published on 1970-09-01. It has received 5002 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income inequality metrics & Income distribution.read more
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Measuring spatial focusing in a migration system
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Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Latin America: Evidence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in six Latin American countries, employing two waves of PISA data (2006 and 2009) by means of a nonparametric approach using a decomposable inequality index, GE(0), and rank countries according to their degree of inequalities of opportunity.
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Next-level riboswitch development-implementation of Capture-SELEX facilitates identification of a new synthetic riboswitch
Adrien Boussebayle,Daniel Torka,Sandra Ollivaud,Johannes Braun,Cristina Bofill-Bosch,Max Dombrowski,Florian Groher,Kay Hamacher,Beatrix Suess +8 more
TL;DR: This work developed a new paromomycin-binding synthetic riboswitch that binds parommycin with a KD of 20 nM and can discriminate between closely related molecules both in vitro and in vivo, and broadens the spectrum of existing RNA regulators.
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The Trend in Between-Nation Income Inequality
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that about seventy percent of the world's total income inequality is between-nation inequality, where the average incomes in the richest nations are roughly 30 times greater than those in the poorest nations.
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Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large
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Aspects of the theory of risk-bearing
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The Measurement of the Inequality of Incomes
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The Efficiency Analysis of Choices Involving Risk
Giora Hanoch,Haim Levy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the first step of the decision-making process of an individual decision maker among alternative risky ventures is presented, in terms of a single dimension such as money, both for the utility functions and for the probability distributions.