What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for … measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health … inequality and relate each of them to the literature on the inequality in income. I propose a model in which each individual …

rate and the degree of after-tax inequality are characterized. Mobility and stickiness of tax policy are both negatively … two forces are complementary. Tax persistence leads to higher levels of post-tax inequality, for any amount of mobility …. The effect of mobility on inequality is less clear-cut and depends on the degree of tax persistence. A laboratory …

U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is … full equalization of inequality due to brute luck that standard analyses would recommend. Related, a similar share prefer a …

, for all states of nature. Then Jensen's inequality implies that consensus choice of the mean privately-chosen action … all states of nature. I develop these ideas. I also use Jensen's inequality to show that a planner with the power to …

, inequality and growth are jointly determined. We show how including fairness explains various observed correlations between … inequality, redistribution and growth. We also show how different beliefs about fairness can keep two otherwise identical …

influence. We present a model of such institutional subversion focusing specifically on courts and of the effects of inequality …

redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a … inequality. Multiple steady states exist in some cases …

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … income inequality and choices of redistributive policies …

then discuss the large literature on in-kind programs as a way of improving the efficiency of the tax system and a range of …