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Recent findings and methodologies in economics research in environmental justice

Cain, Lucas; Hernandez-Cortes, Danae; Timmins, Christopher - 2023

This review synthesizes economics-oriented research in environmental justice with a focus on the last decade. We first …

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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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Intragenerational inequality aversion and intergenerational equity

Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2021

We study the interplay between intragenerational and intergenerational equity in an economy with two countries producing and consuming from national capital stocks. We characterize the sustainable development path that a social planner would implement to achieve intertemporal egalitarianism. If...

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Fair institutions

Valasek, Justin; Wang, Weijia - 2025

The experimental literature on preferences for redistribution has established that individual perceptions of what earning distributions are fair depend greatly on context. In this paper, we study an important and novel dimension of context: whether the choice to redistribute occurs before...

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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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(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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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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Distributive justice and social conflict in an AK model

Tsoukis, Christopher; Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2019

We introduce distributive justice into a simple model of growth and distribution. Two groups ("classes") of otherwise … and Nash bargaining, encapsulating electoral politics and socio-political bargaining) and two normative (justice) criteria … of "justice as minimal social friction". Under the plausible assumption that the capitalists' overall socio …

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Justice under uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2013

An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …

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