OBJECTIVE To test whether relations between economic development, economic inequality, and child and youth homicide rates are sex- and age-specific, and whether a country's wealth modifies the impact of economic inequality on homicide rates. METHODS Outcome variables were homicide rates around 1994 in males and females in the age ranges 0-4, 5-9, 10-14, 15-19 and 20-24 years from 61 countries...

635 National Tax Journal Vol. LXI, No. 4, Part 1 December 2008 Abstract We examine how gross casino gambling revenues differ from other major tax bases in growth and variability. Long–run and short–run income elasticities are estimated using state–level gross casino revenue and state, regional and national income. We run separate time–series regressions for each of 11 states with signifi cant c...

Sweden's income distribution for the whole population and for subgroups, including its immigrants, has been extensively studied. The interest in this area has grown with increasing availability of data, including panels. The previous studies are based on indices of inequality or mobility. While indices are useful for complete ordering and have an air of “decisiveness” about them, they lack univ...

Decision Trees are powerful and popular tools for prediction. These trees are especially useful where in addition to the accuracy of the prediction, the reason for the prediction is also important. This paper presents an application where these decision trees would be used to predict the gross income of a bollywood movie. The paper identifies several factors influencing a movie's income an...

In this work we use data relating to the year 2012 of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to analyze and compare the impact from income components, taxes and social contributions on inequality among households in four major euro area countries: France, Germany, Italy and Spain. To this aim we first aggregate, for each household, gross income components into f...