In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

This paper explores the relationships between openness, poverty and inequality in Africa. The analysis begins with a … guided African policymaking over the last three decades is the lens through which poverty and inequality are further examined …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity—aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory—to social welfare measurement. We suggest a … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We show that inequality may have no discernible effect on the size of redistributive programs. …

This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this … partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined …

appears to have caused a high degree of economic inequality, and democratization in the form of franchise expansion has … between other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We study the effects of inequality on the size (and structure) of redistributive programs in both perfectly … case and that in the latter case an increase in inequality can be associated with a fall in the tax rate. We find also that …

This paper deals with the causes and consequences of inequality and poverty in the countries east of the new frontiers …