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Measuring Inequality Attitudes by Defective Leaky Buckets A Comment [PDF]
Amiel et al. (1999) use the Atkinson and the Gini social welfare functions to measure income inequality attitudes based on data from leaky-bucket experiments.
Seidl, Christian
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Risk-adjusted measures of wage inequality and safety nets [PDF]
Income variablity is likely to increase wage inequality if poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of wage inequality and data from Mexico, this note shows that safety nets could offset a ...
Paul Makdissi, Quentin Wodon
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Tricks with the lorenz curve [PDF]
This note develops, for the Gini coefficient of inequality, a very simple generalization that directly incorporates judgments on ‘relative inter-group inequality aversion' by making the inequality measure sensitive to the skewness of the Lorenz curve ...
Subramanian Sreenivasan
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Meta-Analysis of Inequality Aversion Estimates
Social Science Research Network, 2022 Salvatore Nunnari, M. Pozzi
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When Does Ethnic Diversity Lead to Violence? Evidence from the 2007 Elections in Kenya [PDF]
Some people have a concern for a fair distribution of incomes while others do not. Does such a concern matter for majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are pivotal ...
Kitavi Mbuvi, Thomas Markussen
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Are people ethical? An experimental approach [PDF]
, 2007 Do ethical motivations and attitudes affect behaviour? We examine this issue in six Prisoner´s Dilemma and Prisoner´s Dilemma related games using an online experiment where individuals were asked to make choices and subsequently to express the ...
Dietrich, M., Rowen, D.
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Decisions under Uncertainty in Social Contexts
, 2017 This paper theoretically and experimentally studies decision-making in risky and social environments. We explore the interdependence of individual risk attitudes and inequality aversion as two decisive behavioral determinants in such contexts.
Müller, Stephan, Rau, Holger
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International inequity aversion and the social cost of carbon [PDF]
I define the rate of inequity aversion, distinguishing between the pure rate and the consumption rate. I measure the rate of aversion to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and ...
Richard S.J. Tol
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An incentive mechanism to break the low-skill immigration deadlock [PDF]
public good, inequality aversion, immigration ...
DE LA CROIX, David, DOCQUIER, Frédéric
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An Index of Inequality: With Applications to Horizontal Equity and Social Mobility [PDF]
An index of Inequality is constructed which decomposes into two components, corresponding to vertical and "horizontal" equity respectively. Horizontal equity Is defined in terms of changes in the ordering of a distribution.
Mervyn A. King
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