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Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2024
We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine the health of hypothetical individuals...
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Preferences for childcare policies: theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265034
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633509
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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
additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …
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Income redistribution going awry : the reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation
Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded - 2012
We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...
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Income Redistribution Going Awry : The Reversal Power of the Concern for Relative Deprivation
Sorger, Gerhard - 2013
We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088825
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An Adverse Social Welfare Consequence of a Rich-To-Poor Income Transfer : A Relative Deprivation Approach
Stark, Oded - 2017
A transfer from a richer individual to a poorer one seems to be the most intuitive and straightforward way of reducing income inequality in a society. However, can such a transfer reduce the welfare of the society? We show that a rich-to-poor transfer can induce a response in the individuals'...
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Optimal Redistributional Instruments in Tax Policy and Law & Economics : Survey and Assessment
Sanchirico, Chris William - 2018
The literature on optimal redistributional instruments begins with the assumption that society has some preference for equality, leaving the precise degree unspecified. It then asks: How should society pursue that preference? More specifically, what kinds of policy instruments — whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934183
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Inequality, Redistribution, and the Individualism-Collectivism Dimension of Culture
Binder, Carola - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between culture and redistribution, focusing on the individualism … redistribution and lower levels of after-tax income inequality. This finding also holds when using instruments for individualism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966697
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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 … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …
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