Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 6, 2009). Thesis advisors: Dr. Deanna L. Sharpe, Dr. Sandra J. Huston. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Seminary, 1993. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-73).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [194]-197).

Thesis (doctoral)--Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 2006. / "NUR 826." Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-407).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-289).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-255).

This dissertation both theoretically and empirically examines the relationship between health and wealth, using proxies for health and wealth that are standard in the economics literature. We first model the endogenous interactions between life expectancy and income by modifying a standard overlapping generation model to allow individuals to directly choose their own longevity. The model displays a positive feedback between life expectancy and income that generates multiple stable equilibria. The worse equilibrium is a “poverty-trap” in which poverty and low longevity reinforce each other. The second portion of the dissertation is empirical. We first show that income has statistically significant effects on various proxies for health. The results are robust to different ways of controlling for the endogeneity of income: both instrumental variable estimation with external instruments and also generalized method of moments estimation when internal instruments are applied. We next directly test for the causal relationship between income and various proxies for health using three panel Granger causality tests. Evidence is found to support the existence of a bi-directional causal link. Sensitivity tests further suggest that middle-income countries play a more important role than low-income countries in explaining the overall wealth-health causality.

The Bronze Age in southern Sweden is a period that has seen a great deal of research for as long as archaeological studies have been undertaken in this country. While we have a rich material record and even many visible indicators of the time in the landscape, such as the rock carvings of Tanum and the many mounds dotting the landscape, many aspects of that society are relatively poorly understood. I´m mainly referring to the economic structures underpinning Bronze Age societies. This project will take the models of Wealth and Staple Finance Systems, developed by Timothy Earle and successfully tested in many equivalent contexts around the world, and apply them on Swedish settlement materials from the Bronze Age settlements of Pryssgården and Apalle. The study looks at site distribution patterns, the prevalence of prestige goods and the possible importance of external contacts in order to produce a reliable economic model of the Swedish Bronze Age. While some similarities in resource management are obvious, some relevant aspects were found to differ.

O presente trabalho visa analisar por que até hoje o Imposto sobre Grandes Fortunas não foi implementado no Brasil. Para a consecução desse objetivo, o estudo apresenta a situação da desigualdade no mundo e no país, através de apontamentos realizados pelo economista Thomas Piketty em sua obra “O Capital no Século XXI”, bem como de dados contidos em relatórios da distribuição da riqueza mundial; demarca os conceitos teóricos relativos à tributação, especialmente à justiça fiscal e à progressividade, apresentando a seguir a teoria da tributação equitativa; relata experiências internacionais relacionadas à tributação sobre a riqueza com destaque para os casos da Espanha e da França, mostrando em seguida dados referentes à tributação brasileira, em especial a distribuição da carga tributária do país e a alta participação dos tributos indiretos no total arrecadado, além da baixa participação dos tributos patrimoniais; e apresenta um breve histórico do Imposto sobre Grandes Fortunas no Brasil e os principais projetos de lei para sua regulamentação, analisando as questões que permeiam as discussões sobre o tributo, com o intuito de identificar as causas de sua não instituição até os dias atuais. A conclusão do trabalho aponta que a causa principal é de natureza política, pois os parlamentares e indivíduos com influência nas decisões do Congresso Nacional, ao aprovarem a implementação do imposto, criariam sobre si mesmos uma nova imposição tributária. Ademais, o temor de que ocorra fuga de capitais e redução da poupança interna, além da possível arrecadação baixa constituem causas secundárias para a não regulamentação do tributo. / The present work aims to analyze why until nowadays the Wealth Tax was not implemented in Brazil. In order to achieve this objective, the study presents the situation of inequality in the world and in the country through notes made by the economist Thomas Piketty in his work "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", as well as data contained in reports on the distribution of world wealth; demarcates the theoretical concepts related to taxation, especially fiscal justice and progressivity, and presents the theory of equitable taxation; reports on international experiences related to wealth taxation with emphasis in the cases of Spain and France, showing next data on Brazilian taxation, in particular the distribution of the country's tax burden and the high participation of indirect taxes in the total collected, besides of the low participation of the patrimonial taxes; and presents a brief history of the Wealth Tax in Brazil and the main bills for its regulation, analyzing the issues that permeate the discussions about the tax, in order to identify the causes of its non-institution to the present day. The conclusion of the study indicates that the main cause is political in nature, since the parliamentarians and individuals with influence in the decisions of the National Congress, when approving the implementation of the tax, would create upon themselves a new tax imposition. In addition, the concern of capital flight and reduction of domestic savings, besides the possible low collection, are secondary causes for the non-regulation of the tribute.