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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness

Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...

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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture

Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999

A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...

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Income redistribution going awry : the reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation

Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded - 2012

inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively …. A robust example illustrates this result. -- a rank-preserving inequality-narrowing transfer ; the Gini coefficient …

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Better off or more apart? : empirically testing welfare and inequality dominance criteria

Beach, Charles M. - 2022

This paper provides the tools and procedures for empirically implementing several dominance criteria for social welfare comparisons and broad income inequality comparisons. Dominance criteria are expressed in terms of vectors of quantile ordinates based on income shares or quantile means....

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A nifty fix for published distribution statistics : simplified distribution-free statistical inference

Beach, Charles M. - 2021

This paper applies the tool box measures of disaggregative income inequality characterization and the statistical methodology of Beach (2021) to percentile-based distribution statistics such as quintile income shares and decile means typically published by official statistical agencies. It...

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A useful empirical tool box for distributional analysis

Beach, Charles M. - 2021

This paper offers a tool box of disaggregative measures of distributional change, including population shares, income shares, quantile mean incomes and relative mean incomes of different income groups. It highlights median-based measures along with quintiles and deciles. It also offers formulas...

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A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen's measures of inequality and social welfare

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2021

The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social … welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from social-psychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a … Gini coefficient increases. By integrating our approach to the construction of the Gini coefficient with Sen's social …

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Consensus income distribution

Stark, Oded; Falniowski, Fryderyk; Jakubek, Marcin - 2016

In determining the optimal redistribution of a given population's income, we ask which factor is more important: the social planner's aversion to inequality, embedded in an isoelastic social welfare function indexed by a parameter alpha, or the individuals' concern at having a low relative...

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On the precarious link between the Gini coefficient and the incentive to migrate

Stark, Oded; Byra, Łukasz; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020

of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind the substantial … between aggregate or total relative deprivation, TRD, the Gini coefficient, G, and migration. We show that for a given change …

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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation

Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017

We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...

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