In theory, regulators concerned about inequality will deviate from efficient two-part tariffs, charging lower-than-efficient fixed monthly fees and higher-than-efficient per-kilowatt-hour prices. To quantify that relationship, we develop a measure of the redistributive extent utility tariffs: “electric Gini.” Utilities with higher electric Ginis shift more costs households using relatively litt...

We solve the nonlinear income tax program for rank-dependent social welfare functions, expressing trade-off between size and inequality using Gini related families of positional indices. Absent bunching, ranks in actual optimal allocations are invariant. Exploiting this feature, we provide new, simple, intuitive formulas both quasilinear additive cases new comparative static results. Our approa...

This article combines all available data to produce pretax and post-tax income inequality series in 26 European countries from 1980 2017. Our estimates are consistent with macroeconomic growth comparable US distributional national accounts. Inequality grew nearly countries, but much less than the US. Contrary a widespread view, we demonstrate that Europe’s lower levels cannot be explained by mo...

Families’ economic wealth is a resource that can provide children with crucial advantages early in their lives. Prior research identified substantial variation of levels between different family types from single-parent families being most disadvantaged. The causes this disadvantage, how much the disadvantage varies and non-resident parents’ may potentially reduce remain unclear. To address the...

Bu çalışmada, OECD ülkelerinde gelir dağılımı ve tüketim harcamaları incelenmektedir. çerçevede 34 ülkesini 1970-2021 dönemini kapsayan veri seti kullanılmıştır. Çalışmada hem içsellik problemini gidermek de uzun dönemde dinamik süreci daha iyi açıklayabilmek amacıyla “Dinamik panel veri” tekniği uygulanmıştır. Buna ek olarak, söz konusu ilişki üç farklı göstergesi üzerinden incelenmiştir. saye...

The debate on the measurement of income, poverty and social exclusion in Europe has increased significantly in recent years. Poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and, according to the definition used, various measures to assess poverty are calculated and different poverty sizes are obtained. The aim of this work is to make a review of the literature on the most used approaches t...

Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the incomes of all individuals richer/poor...

Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists? Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption. We show that, rather than reducing it, philanthropy ma...

Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on crosssection data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other factors. This new method is supe...