We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …

as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and well-being. The most likely ethical basis for …

responsibility within prioritarianism requires compromises regarding the nature and scope of both impartiality and inequality …

debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

Studies using the Gini Index as a measure of income inequality have consistently found a positive and significant …

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental … designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

paper reports the results of an experiment investigating inequality aversion and negative emotions as possible determinants … payoff inequality between the punisher and the target, and one in which it does not affect inequality. We show that while … inequality-aversion prevents some subjects from punishing in the equal cost treatment, negative emotions are the primary motive …

justice. We examine a variety of methods for measuring the actual reward and the just reward, for both self and other … decomposition into poverty and inequality components …