rich to the poor in a model of optimal nonlinear income taxation. Our framework integrates public and private … redistribution, the warm glow of giving and stigma of receiving charitable donations, and status concerns emanating from social …

redistributive gains from progressive taxation. …

income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality measurement tools to a health variable that is non … status. The approach in this paper is based on measuring inequality conditional on an individual's position in the … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …

wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … independent. We argue that the way status is conceptualized has important theoretical implications for measurement as well as for …

income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non … status. The approach in this paper is based on measuring inequality conditional on an individual's position in the … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …

health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use … several versions of the status concept and apply methods for treating categorical data to examine self-assessed health … the status concept. We find evidence that health inequalities vary with median health status alongside indicators of …

health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use … several versions of the status concept and apply methods for treating categorical data to examine self-assessed health … the status concept. We find evidence that health inequalities vary with median health status alongside indicators of …