We study mechanisms to construct equal-opportunity policies for resource allocation. In our model, agents enjoy welfare as a function of the effort they expend and the amount of a socially provided resource they consume. Nevertheless, agents have interdependent preferences, that is, they not...

Health outcomes are often described according to two dimensions: quality of life and quantity of life. We analyze the measurement of inequality of health distributions referring to these two dimensions. Our analysis relies on a novel treatment of the quality-of-life dimension, which might not...

This paper introduces a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal bivariate categorical data. In our model, one population is more unequal than another when they have common arithmetic median outcomes and the first can be obtained from the second by correlation-increasing switches and/or...