This paper extends a standard altruism model of private transfers to a multiple goods model. It has been pointed out that unlike the exchange-motivated transfers, altruistically motivated private transfers would mitigate income inequality in terms of quantity. However, taking the effect of...

The paper proposes an alternative index of relative deprivation which allows for selection of the reference group and imperfect information, two central elements of modern theories of social justice. An application to real data and a simulation on artificial data illustrate the use and some...

The paper proposes an alternative index of relative deprivation which allows for selection of the reference group and imperfect information, two central elements of modern theories of social justice. An application to real data and a simulation on artificial data illustrate the use and some...

This paper extends a standard altruism model of private transfers to a multiple goods model. It has been pointed out that unlike the exchange-motivated transfers, altruistically motivated private transfers would mitigate income inequality in terms of quantity. However, taking the effect of...

The paper uses two particular formulations of the Gini index to derive two different relative deprivation measures. We then generalize the formulation of these measures following Donaldson and Weymark (1980) and Berrebi and Silber (1985) and show how these generalizations can be considered as...