fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two idely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries …

measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for … health care. After demonstrating the logic of the investigation, the paper recapitulates the information about results of …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …