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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...

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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

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Are User Fees Really Regressive?

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...

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A Case for Taxing Education

Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2005

We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...

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The Role of Stigma in the Design of Welfare Programs

Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2008

We consider the notion of welfare stigma à la Besley and Coate (1992b). This stigma is attributed to welfare claimants by society when they are perceived as undeserving in the sense that they falsely claim to be eligible for welfare benefits. However, due to imperfect information, this stigma...

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On the Desirability of Taxing Charitable Contributions

Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2007

We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...

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Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - CESifo - 2010

It is argued that the concept of well –being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ...

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The Measurement of Poverty: An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation (published in Economic Letters, vol.22 (1997), pp.571-588)

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank A - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1994

We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on Poverty Measurement. Using a sample of 486 students … from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which perceptions of poverty correspond to the axioms. …

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Estimating Welfare Indices: Household Weights and Sample Design

Cowell, Frank A; Jenkins, Stephen P - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2000

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...

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Robustness properties of poverty indices

Cowell, Frank A; Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1994

poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices … have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an imporrtant commonly used subclass of poverty … measures will be robust under data conta m ination. We investigate both the case where the poverty line is exogenenously fixed …

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