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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 … income, health or socioeconomic health. This puts restrictions on measures of socioeconomic health inequality, where a …
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, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …
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Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales in fact are income dependent. This paper explores the consistency of results derived from income independent and income...
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-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We … equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. -- Prospect Theory …
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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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This paper studies the distributional consequences of a systematic variation in expenditure shares and prices. Using European Union Household Budget Surveys and Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices data, we construct household-specific price indices and reveal the existence of a pro-rich...
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unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … distributions is ignored. -- Income ; health ; global distribution ; inequality ; poverty …
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We propose a model of "trade" between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...
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Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …
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