find that how environmental inequality affects societal willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental local public goods is … inequality decreases societal (WTP) for substitutes, but this effect is reversed if environmental goods are complements or …

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across … neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across … neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

Along with the rise in income inequality in the U.S., we have observed a simultaneous move toward fiscal devolution and … model predicts that an increase in income inequality leads to decentralization, with local jurisdictions becoming more …

inequality of incomes and inequality of welfare outcomes, and (b) individuals' material incentives fo r supporting income … redistribution. We show that the nominal distribution of income could give quite a misleading picture of real inequality and tensions … welfare inequality, and show that, somewhat paradoxically, individua ls sometimes have incentives for opposing redistribution …