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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411680
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...
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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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The evolution of child-related gender inequality in Germany and the role of family policies, 1960-2018
Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Sachs, Dominik; … - 2024
-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our …-third to the increase in child-related gender inequality. Instead, a parental benefit reform in 2007 mitigated further …
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Does gender equality translate into economic equality? : evidence from about 150 nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021
different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …
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Pro-poor price trends and inequality : the case of India
Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders - 2016
these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we study consumption inequality in India, while fully allowing for non …
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Attitudes toward women's education in Afghanistan : empirical evidence from a nationwide survey
Asadi, Mohammad Haroon; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024
transform gender attitudes and promote educational equality in Afghanistan. …
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Bounds of unfair inequality of opportunity : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
Previous estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) are lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed characteristics beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. Knowing the true size of unfair IOp, however, is important for the acceptance of (some) inequality and...
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the...
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