Stark, Oded - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 4 (2021), pp. 1-7
lowering relative deprivation. Specifically, we show that a policy of reducing income inequality aimed at improving public … other hand. The Gini coefficient can be shown to consist of two components, one of which is (a measure of) relative … deprivation, which was found to cause social stress that harms public health. Because a component is not the whole, the lowering …