The Optimal Production of Social Justice

Kolm, Serge-Christophe

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“…20 In particular, when the Lorenz curves intersect, different indexes can provide different inequality information and this makes the choice of the index important for the results. For instance, the Gini coefficient is more sensitive to changes in the middle of the income 20 Dalton (1920), Kolm (1969) and Atkinson (1970). distribution and it is less sensitive to movements at the extremes.…”

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The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets

François

Rojas‐Romagosa

2005

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. licence. www.econstor.eu Please send questions and/or remarks of nonscientific nature to driessen@tinbergen.nl. If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicatedMost TI discussion papers can be downloaded at http://www.tinbergen.nl. The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets Joseph F. Francois Tinbergen Institute (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and CEPR Hugo Rojas-Romagosa Tinbergen Institute (Erasmus University Rotterdam) August 2005Abstract: The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extended by the UN has been both widely used and strongly criticized. The criticisms raise questions about conclusions drawn from secondary inequality datasets in general. We develop techniques to deal with national and international comparability problems intrinsic to such datasets. The result is a new dataset of consistent inequality series, allowing us to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new data allow us to perform parametric non-linear estimation of Lorenz curves from grouped data. This in turn allows us to estimate the entire income distribution, computing alternative inequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used our broadly comparable dataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty.Keywords: Income distribution datasets, inequality trends, Lorenz curve estimation, poverty estimation JEL codes: D31, C80, O15We acknowledge support from the EU research and training network (RTN) "Trade, Industrialization, and Development," as well as research support from DFID and the World Bank. All errors are of course our own.Address correspondence to: J. Francois, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burg Oudlaan 50-H8-18, 3000DR Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS. Email: francois@few.eur.nl. Data are available at www.intereconomics.com/francois/data.html. OverviewThere is a sizeable literature regarding the interaction between income inequality and other economic variables, such as growth, poverty, trade and ...

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Section: Inequality Measurementmentioning

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The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets

François

Rojas‐Romagosa

2005

SSRN Journal

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“…In decomposing the change in poverty caused by a program, we further import to poverty measurement the concept of the "cost of inequality" -a concept that has been very influential in the literature on inequality measurement (see Kolm, 1969, andAtkinson, 1970). The poverty-alleviation effectiveness of a policy is then a function of the leakage that it involves and of the change in the cost of inequality that it causes.…”

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Equity and policy effectiveness with imperfect targeting

Bibi

Duclos

2007

Journal of Development Economics

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Abstract:We propose a general cost-of-inequality approach that jointly integrates horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequityaversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation programs done with simple under-coverage and leakage ratios or with other methods that do not take into account the heterogeneity of the poor and that do not address directly the social benefits of achieving normative criteria. Our methodology is illustrated using Tunisia data and two alternative poverty alleviation policies. We find inter alia that the social ranking of commodity and socio-demographic targeting in Tunisia depends on the policymaker's comparative preference for vertical and horizontal equity.

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“…The concept of a constant equivalent is commonly used in the welfare economics literature. For example, Kolm (1969) uses the notion of representative income, which, if equally distributed among the individuals, results in the same social welfare as the existing income distribution. Atkinson (1970) called this income level the equally distributed equivalent income.…”

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Equity weights in the allocation of health care: the rank-dependent QALY model

Bleichrodt

Diecidue

Quiggin

2004

Journal of Health Economics

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This paper introduces the rank-dependent quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) model, a new method to aggregate QALYs in economic evaluations of health care. The rank-dependent QALY model permits the formalization of influential concepts of equity in the allocation of health care, such as the fair innings approach, and it includes as special cases many of the social welfare functions that have been proposed in the literature. An important advantage of the rank-dependent QALY model is that it offers a straightforward procedure to estimate equity weights for QALYs. We characterize the rank-dependent QALY model and argue that its central condition has normative appeal.

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The Optimal Production of Social Justice

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The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets

The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets

Equity and policy effectiveness with imperfect targeting

Equity weights in the allocation of health care: the rank-dependent QALY model

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