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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...

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Inequality and Network Structure

Iyengar, Garud - 2008

This paper explores the manner in which the structure of a social network constrains the level of inequality that can … be sustained among its members. We assume that any distribution of value across the network must be stable with respect … network. We show that if the network is bipartite, there is a unique stable payoff distribution that is maximally unequal in …

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...

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Cooperation Under Fear, Greed and Prison : The Role of Redistributive Inequality in the Evolution of Cooperation

Mantilla, César - 2012

This work offers an analysis of cooperation dilemmas making emphasis in the role of the unequal outcomes. Increases in the benefit from leaving mutual cooperation are associated to the greed dimension, while increases in the cost from leaving mutual defection are associated to fear dimension....

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Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2009

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the First application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimen- sional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust...

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Declining International Inequality and Economic Divergence: Reviewing the Evidence Through Different Lenses

Bourguignon, Francois; Levin, Victoria; Rosenblatt, David - In: Economie Internationale (2004) 100, pp. 13-26

In recent years, an ample literature has emerged on the evolution of global inequality during the last two decades. A few stylized facts emerge. If one weights countries by their population, then inequality across countries has declined. However, if one treats countries equally – as in the...

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Health and income: A robust comparison of Canada and the US

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2008

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...

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Health and income: A robust comparison of Canada and the US

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

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Structural Reforms and the Distributional Effects of Price Changes in Argentina

Navajas, Fernando H. - 1999

This paper focuses on the change in the distribution of consumption in Argentina in the last decade and evaluates the distributional impact of relative price changes to address one dimension of the distributional consequences of massive privatization and de-regulation. The approach used is based...

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Taxing the Poor : Income Averaging Reconsidered

Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010

This Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating that low-income families experience far greater income fluctuations than higher-income families and, as a result, taxation of annual income disproportionately burdens low-income families. The author proposes two simple income...

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