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Poverty and individual responsibility
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2020
a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family …
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Language rights : a welfare-economics approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015
Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 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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Inequality of opportunity and income redistribution
Preuß, Marcel; Reyes, Germán; Somerville, Jason; Wu, Joyce - 2023
We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and whether luck magnified workers' effort ("lucky...
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(In-)equality of opportunity, fairness, and distributional preferences
Fehr, Dietmar; Müller, Daniel; Preuß, Marcel - 2022
This paper examines how perceived importance of family background affect distributional pref-erences using two large-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income and economic success later in life, which renders...
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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand … - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
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The trade-off between intra- and intergenerational equity in climate policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2013
This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational equity, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which...
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Emotions and political unrest
Passarelli, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2013
view of what is fair taking into account the current state of the world. If fewer aggregate resources are available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722397
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On international equity weights and national decision making on climate change
Anthoff, David (contributor); Tol, Richard S. J. (contributor) - 2008
assume a social welfare function and hence a particular attitude towards equity and justice. We show that previous approaches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749442
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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation
Tungodden, Bertil - 2001
It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors … this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic … environments. However, on a general basis, even this weaker version of the ethics of responsibility is not compatible with the …
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