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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe

Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000

in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …

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A normative framework of justice in climate change

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

factor which takes into account all undeserved inequalities, as suggested by Rawls’ theory of justice. With regard to the … inevitable. The related underpinning of justice can be found in principle I of Rawls’ theory of justice. Finally, for the issues … attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this …

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Income Fluctuations, Poverty and Well-Being Over Time: Theory and Application to Argentina

Cruces, Guillermo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel data has been exploited in theoretical analysis and...

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The evolution of income inequality in the European Union

Alvarez-Garcia, Santiago; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; … - EconWPA - 2003

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. Using the information contained in the European Community Household Panel, corresponding to the four first waves. Using the inverse second order stochastic...

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On the value of life

Cool, Thomas - EconWPA - 2003

The national budget affects life and death via its allocations in areas such as traffic safety, flood control, public health and the like. When the cost-effectiveness of an intervention is evaluated, common effect measures are the number of lives extended (saved) and the expected lifeyears...

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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...

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Are Happy People Ethical People? Evidence from North America and Europe

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 2003

in the 1995-1997 wave of the World Values Survey. The findings suggest that happiness affects ethical judgments …

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Third-party punishment and social norms

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

We examine the characteristics and relative strength of third-party sanctions in a series of experiments. We hypothesize that egalitarian distribution norms and cooperation norms apply in our experiments, and that third parties, whose economic payoff is unaffected by the norm violation, may be...

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Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction, and Average Well-Being under Different Income Distributions

Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan; Morone, Andrea - EconWPA - 2004

investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency theory to explain back-ground context effects …-frequency theory can be evidenced. Moreover, we demonstrate a welfare paradox which concerns a contradiction between individual income …

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Time allocation within the family: welfare implications of life in a couple

Couprie, Helene - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyzes the household decision-making process leading to the allocation of time and consumption in the family. We estimate, on the British Household Panel Survey, a collective model of demand for leisure generalized to the production of a household public good. For the first time in...

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