Measures of income inequality based on current income are well known to overstate lifetime income inequality for two reasons: intracohort mobility and the shape of the age-earnings profile. Utilizing the concept of age equivalence scales along with varying assumptions concerning the extent of...

The concept of an environmental Gini coefficient has been used recently by several researchers. In line with Paglin's historical critique of the income Gini coefficient, an environmental Paglin-Gini is proposed and estimated, more carefully considering the notion of 'perfect environmental...

The presence of threshold effects or convex damage functions implies that the composition of pollutants may be as important in the determination of health outcomes as the level of pollution. As such, greater specialization in particular environmental hazards may suggest increasing costs from...