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Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887379
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Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Germany
Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023
We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469779
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274814
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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries: A preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2011
-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human … development in affluent countries. Based on this literature survey and an illustration of procedures and challenges of selecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276728
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Living standards in black and white: evidence from the heights of Ohio prison inmates, 1829 - 1913
Carson, Scott Alan; Maloney, Thomas N. - 2006
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263958
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Health, wealth and inequality: a contribution to the debate about the relationship between inequality and health
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
-Palestinian conflict. We also discuss the implications of revenge-dependent preferences for welfare economics and their strategic value as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271949
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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis
van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2007
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276298
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Does Gender Equality Translate into Economic Equality? Evidence from about 150 Nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021
This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582012
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Does Gender Equality Translate into Economic Equality? Evidence from About 150 Nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021
This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239326
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Well-being inequality and reference groups: An agenda for new research
van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 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 the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277032