Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that … generating performance inequality. …

consumption-pattern based inequality index that summarizes the projection of inequality through expenditure patterns. Estimation …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

conditions worsens at a time of rising economic inequality. Households differ in age, beliefs and income, and the scale of … optimists and young pessimists, leading to a jump in support for public action.A steady rise in inequality may ultimately induce …

There is a vast literature on the selection of an appropriate index of income inequality and on what desirable … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … description of inequality inherent in empirical income distributions with extreme values. …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …