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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249997
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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278609
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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356662
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A methodological rejoinder to “Does income relate to health due to psychosocial or material factors?”
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2020
health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016) conduct an inquiry aimed at deciphering which measure of low relative … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … psychosocial effect of individual i's low relative income on his health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213174
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A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Kobus, Martyna; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling behind the incomes of others, the optimal income distribution under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307347
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The impact of the assimilation of migrants on the well-being of native inhabitants: A theory
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Jakubek, Marcin - 2015
We present a theory that systematically and causally links the well-being of native inhabitants with variation in the extent of the assimilation of migrants. Recent empirical findings are yielded as predictions of the theory.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327314
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A bitter choice turned sweet: How acknowledging individuals' concern at having a low relative income serves to align utilitarianism and egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
When individuals' utility is a convex combination of their income and their concern at having a low relative income (the weights attached to income and to the concern at having a low relative income sum up to one), the maximization of aggregate utility yields an equal income distribution. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327317
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A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Kobus, Martyna; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling behind the incomes of others, the optimal income distribution under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323665
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Migration when social preferences are ordinal: Steady-state population distribution, and social welfare
Stark, Oded - 2017
This paper adds three dimensions to the received literature: it models migration when the individuals' preferences regarding their relative income are ordinal, it works out the resulting spatial steady-state distribution of the individuals, and it shows that the aggregate of the individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661049
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Migration when social preferences are ordinal: Steady state population distribution, and social welfare
Stark, Oded - 2017
This paper adds three dimensions to the received literature: it models migration when the individuals' preferences regarding their relative income are ordinal, it works out the resulting spatial steady state distribution of the individuals, and it shows that the aggregate of the individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661790