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that support for redistribution is positively linked with the level of income inequality. The same association is found for … subjective beliefs about fairness in the society. We document that individuals believing to be at the top of the social ladder …
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to universalism in health coverage and takes a close look at equity issues. It concludes with some key takeaways from UHC … mechanically transposed to the USP agenda, a number of lessons can be drawn. Moreover, the benefits in terms of coverage and equity …
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Where they exist, tariffs for water supply and sanitation services face a tension between different policy objectives, such as ensuring the financial sustainability of service provision and ensuring access to all, including vulnerable and poor social groups. Governments (local and national)...
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During the last decade, research on income inequality has paid special attention to top income earners. At the same time, top marginal tax rates on upper income earners have declined sharply in many OECD countries. Discussions are still open on the relationship between the increase of the income...
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addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …
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Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
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We develop a general equilibrium OLG model to evaluate a wide menu of popular redistributive policies in a unified context. We work in two steps: First, we study how initial conditions in human and financial capital, as inherited from family background, shape individuals' human capital, and...
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play, imitation, reinforcement learning, and a trial & error process. We test whether subjects try to influence those …
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laboratory experiment we test the different theories by systematically varying information conditions. We find significant …
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based on data that contains biased human decisions. This has led to a call for fairness-aware machine learning. However …, fairness is a complex concept which is also reflected in the attempts to formalize fairness for algorithmic decision making …. Statistical formalizations of fairness lead to a long list of criteria that are each flawed (or harmful even) in different …
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