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The distribution of income is worse than you think: Including pollution impacts into measures of income inequality

This paper calculates the distribution of an adjusted measure of income that deducts damages due to exposure to air pollution from reported market income in the United States from 2011 to 2014. The Gini coefficient for this measure of adjusted income is 0.682 in 2011, as compared to 0.482 for market...

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Autores principales: Muller, Nicholas Z., Matthews, Peter Hans, Wiltshire-Gordon, Virginia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29561838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192461