affected inequality in health and living standards. …, and health. The fourteenth-century Black Death, which is usually credited to have led to a significant reduction in … economic inequality, has attracted the greatest attention. However, the picture becomes much more complex if other epidemics …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …