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Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion – A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries

Ortiz, Isabel; Cummins, Matthew - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2011

for development; (iii) calls for placing equity at the center of development in the context of the United Nations …

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Chapter 34 Equity in health care finance and delivery

Wagstaff, Adam; van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1803-1862). 2000

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

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Efficiency and Equity: Is There a Trade-off?

Correia, Isabel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Efficient measures are often not implemented because of their potentially damaging effects on distribution, yet these distributional effects are scarcely studied in economics because of the idea that they are case specific. In this paper we show that when we can separate the effect on efficiency...

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An Optimal Fair Job Assignment Problem

Yang, Zaifu - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2002

We study the problem of how to allocate a set of indivisible objects like jobs or houses and an amount of money among a group of people as fairly and as efficiently as possible. A particular constraint for such an allocation is that every person should be assigned with the same number of objects...

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Wealth Inequality and Asset Pricing

Gollier, C. - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et … - 1997

inequality affects the equilibrium value of the equity premium and the risk-free rate. We forst show that welath inequality … raises the equity premium if and only if the inverse of absolute risk aversion is concave in welath. We also show that the …

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Statistical Inference for the Measurement of the Incidence of Taxes and Transfers.

Davidson, R.; Duclos, J.Y. - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1995

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Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking: an Integrated Approach.

Duclos, J.Y.; Jalbert, V.; Araar, A. - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 2000

The last 20 years have seen a significant evolution in the literature on horizontal inequity (HI) and have led to two major and "rival" methodological strands, namely, classical HI and reranking. We propose in this paper a class of ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands.

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Inverse Stochastic Dominance and Yaari's Model.

Chateauneuf, A.; Wilthien, P.-H. - Centre de recherche de mathématiques et économie … - 1999

In this paper, we show that the third inverse stochastic dominances introduced by Muliere and Scarsini (1989) is nicely connected with the Yaari's dual model. We show especially that the third inverse stochastic dominance is closely linked with the non-negativity of third derivative of the...

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Downside-Mindedness.

Wilthien, P.-H. - Centre de recherche de mathématiques et économie … - 1999

The initial goal of this paper was to study how to characterize the behavior of an EU maximiser decision maler according to the sign of u[p], p-th derivative of his utility function. The answer is well-known for u', u'', has been studied for u''' (Menezes, Geiss ant Tressler, Kimball), u''''...

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The Principle of Strong Kiminishing Transfer.

Chateauneuf, A.; Gajdos, T.; Wilthien, P.-H. - Centre de recherche de mathématiques et économie … - 1999

In a seminal paper, Kolm [14] introduces the principle diminishing transfer. This principle requires that a transfert from an individual with income x to one with income x - D(D 0) has a greater impact on social welfare the lower x is. On the other hand Mehran [15] and Kakwani [11] introduced...

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