What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for … measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health … inequality, whether within groups or between them, has no effect on average health. Even so, the slope of the relationship …

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

suggests fairly low (even zero) levels of contributions to the public good and high levels of free riding. Experiments and … sustain cooperation (regardless of the nature of preferences). An example drawn from experiments is provided as an …

party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without …

welfare weights. Weights directly capture society's concerns for fairness allowing us to cleanly separate individual utilities …