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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Hufe, Paul - 2018

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...

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Moral Judgments in Social Dilemmas : How Bad is Free Riding?

Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2021

distributive justice. Here we study people’s normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and …

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A Fairness Justification of Utilitarianism

Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2016

Differences in preferences are important to explain variation in individuals' behavior. There is however no consensus on how to take these differences into account when evaluating policies. While prominent in the economic literature, the standard utilitarian criterion faces two major...

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Justifying the Lindahl Solution as an Outcome of Fair Cooperation

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2021

The Lindahl equilibrium is mostly motivated by a rather artificial price mechanism. Even though the analogy to a competitive market has been emphasised by Lindahl himself his approach does not directly explain the normative ideas, which are behind this concept. In the present paper we therefore...

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What's the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice?

Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina M. - 2021

This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. A … formula is derived that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients … monetary value of justice in the United States is about one fifth of GDP. We find no evidence that the value of justice varies …

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Shocking Racial Attitudes : Black G.I.s in Europe

Schindler, David; Westcott, Mark - 2021

Can attitudes towards minorities, an important cultural trait, be changed? We show that the presence of African American soldiers in the U.K. during World War II reduced anti-minority prejudice, a result of the positive interactions which took place between soldiers and the local population. The...

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Black and White Labor Market Outcomes in the 19th Century American South

Carson, Scott A. - 2021

Modern labor studies consider the relationship between wages and biological markers. A relevant historical question is the relationship between occupational status and biological markers. This study demonstrates that 19th century stature and BMIs were significant in Texas occupation selection;...

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Determinants of Financial Inclusion of Urban Poor in India : An Empirical Analysis

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2016

Financial inclusion is crucial for the inclusive and sustainable economic growth of developing countries. Access to financial services to all citizens, particularly to low income and poor people is a key to promote inclusive growth. While rural financial inclusion assumes importance from policy...

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Unemployment in a Just Economy

Komlos, John - 2016

This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which …

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The Pareto-Frontier in a Simple Mirrleesian Model of Income Taxation

Bierbrauer, Felix J. - 2013

We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...

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