We consider the notion of welfare stigma à la Besley and Coate (1992b). This stigma is attributed to welfare claimants … benefits. However, due to imperfect information, this stigma may be extended, with some probability, to all welfare claimants …. We examine the implications of this kind of stigma for the design of welfare programs. …

We consider the notion of welfare stigma a la Besley and Coate (1992b). This stigma is attributed to welfare claimants … benefits. However, due to imperfect information, this stigma may be extended, with some probability, to all welfare claimants …. We examine the implications of this kind of stigma for the design of welfare programs …

inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver …This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and …

inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver …This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … compounded by the unequal distribution of existing access for households. This study improves understanding of this inequality by … evaluating access across the region's physical (location), poverty, and income considerations. The paper also analyzes inequality …

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its …

multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

The paper is about the political consequences of increasing economic inequality in Western economies. Political … connections between economic inequality and democracy, however, are not easy to detect and the body of literature is not so large … and to offer some hints on the political relevance of the inequality consequences, if any, on democracy. …