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Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods
Kölle, Felix - 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity
Aaberge, Rolf - 2010
In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an ex-ante and an ex-post approach to EOp. Our ex-post approach relies on a permanent income measure defined...
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Equity and Equality
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006
as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and well-being. The most likely ethical basis for …
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Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare interpretation has been criticized for a long time on the...
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(In)Equality and (In)Justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
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Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States
Hussey, Andrew - 2014
This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago....
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Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe
Checchi, Daniele - 2010
This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality, helping to identify potential institutional setups that are associated to opportunity inequality. We...
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Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health Among the Elderly in China : A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers
Ding, Lanlin - 2020
We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60+ and decompose the contributions of different sets of circumstances. Data are drawn from the 2011 and 2015 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)...
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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
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