attain some minimal level of utility. Our argument suggests that when misreporting of income by welfare claimants is … sufficiently manifest, introducing work requirements for welfare eligibility economizes on government expenditure and is socially …

There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic … empirical underpinning of this claim is a strong inverse relationship at the country level between social transfer targeting and …

increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

disadvantaged 'short'. We employ an egalitarian social welfare function to compare anti-discrimination legal rules with a non …

inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver …This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …

, including inequality, oppositional culture, group boundary permeability, social inclusion and exclusion, segregation and …