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On the Measurement of Inequality
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In this paper, the problem of comparing two frequency distributions f(u) of an attribute y which for convenience I shall refer to as income is defined as a risk in the theory of decision-making under uncertainty.About:
This article is published in Journal of Economic Theory.The article was published on 1970-09-01. It has received 5002 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income inequality metrics & Income distribution.read more
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Against Injustice: On applying synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being: health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom
TL;DR: The multidimensional view of human well-being has a growing influence on research on inequality and poverty as mentioned in this paper. But the shift has not been confined to academic circles and has extended to policy-oriented analysis.
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Deprivation and Social Exclusion
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize new individual and aggregate measures of deprivation and social exclusion using an axiomatic approach, and apply them to EU data for the period 1994-2001.
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Just Transformations to Sustainability
Nathan J. Bennett,Jessica Blythe,Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor,Gerald G. Singh,U. Rashid Sumaila +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the transformations, just transitions, and social justice literature to advance a pragmatic framing of just transformations that includes recognitional, procedural and distributional considerations.
Gender and Poverty: New Evidence from 10 Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the links between gender and poverty in 10 developing countries (7 in sub-Saharan Africa 3 in Asia and 1 in Latin America) and found that the poor are dominated by female-headed households.
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Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large
TL;DR: In this article, a measure of risk aversion in the small, the risk premium or insurance premium for an arbitrary risk, and a natural concept of decreasing risk aversion are discussed and related to one another.
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Aspects of the theory of risk-bearing
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The Measurement of the Inequality of Incomes
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The Efficiency Analysis of Choices Involving Risk
Giora Hanoch,Haim Levy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the first step of the decision-making process of an individual decision maker among alternative risky ventures is presented, in terms of a single dimension such as money, both for the utility functions and for the probability distributions.