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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …
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measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …
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findings. First, child penalties (i.e., the percentage of potential earnings lost due to children) have strongly increased over … sample period, the fraction of overall inequality attributed to children rose from 14% to 64%. This trend not only resulted …
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independent. We argue that the way status is conceptualized has important theoretical implications for measurement as well as for … methods for making health inequality comparisons. Findings suggest significant differences in health inequality measurement …
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The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an …
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We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
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We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective measure of individual welfare, we suggest that such a...
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and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …
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ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate … crucial to ensure more equity and social stability. -- growth ; inequality ; poverty ; East Asia and the Middle East …
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