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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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National and international income dispersion and aggregate expenditures

Fillat Castejón, Carmen; Francois, Joseph F. - 2004

We examine linkages between aggregate household income, distribution of that income, and aggregate cross-country expenditure patterns. We are able to decompose income effects into international income dispersion effects (from variations in average income) and national income dispersion (income...

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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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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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A note on Sen's representation of the Gini coefficient : revision and repercussions

Stark, Oded - 2024

Sen (1973 and 1997) presents the Gini coefficient of income inequality in a population as follows. "In any pair … pair-wise comparisons takes us to the Gini coefficient." (This citation is from Sen 1973, p. 8.) Sen's verbal account is … inequality (maximal inequality). In this note we show that when the Gini coefficient is elicited from a neat measure of the …

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Combining panel data sets with attrition and refreshment samples

Hirano, Keisuke; Imbens, Guido; Ridder, Geert; Rubin, … - 1998

With panel data important issues can be resolved that can not beaddressed with cross--sectional data. A major drawback is that paneldata suffer from more severe missing data problems. Adding a sampleconsisting of new units randomly drawn from the original populationas replacements for units who...

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