全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Inequality Within and Between Families

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w0405
来源ID	Working Paper 0405
	Inequality Within and Between Families
	Eytan Sheshinski; Yoram Weiss
发表日期	1979-11-01
出版年	1979
语种	英语
摘要	Between-family differences in expenditures and output reflect the effect of simultaneous increases in children's ability on the willingness of parents to transfer resources to them. Within-family differences also reflect the attitudes of parents toward disparity among children. In this paper we characterize the conditions on parents' preferences that determine whether between-family differences exceed within-family differences. For an additive utility, within-family differences in expenditures always exceed between-family differences. This may also be true for the maximum utility function if an increase in ability reduces the marginal utility of income. Within-family differences in output (utility or income) can also exceed between-family differences. In this case, the implication for income distribution is that equality is enhanced by a higher correlation of ability between brothers.
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w0405
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/557581
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Eytan Sheshinski,Yoram Weiss. Inequality Within and Between Families. 1979.