Analysis of How to View Income Inequality and Poverty and Evaluation of Welfare Policies

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380362
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Public finance/Public economy
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Kunio Urakawa 九州大学, 経済学研究院, 准教授 (90452482)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 格差 / 貧困 / 福祉政策 / 医療政策 / ソーシャル・キャピタル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study used economic experiments and questionnaire surveys to examine how people’s ideas of distributing health care and welfare resources and how they view and define income inequality and poverty are related to their own socioeconomic status, living environment in their respective residential areas, and social capital.
By applying the approaches of Traub et al. (2005) and Amiel et al. (2012) and also considering international comparison, the experiments and surveys included questions asking the respondents for their views of desirable income distribution and redistribution based on numerical examples to determine the types of ethical standards and social welfare functions that would most likely reflect the respondents’ own ideas.
We have reported the research and analytical results of this study at academic conferences and other meetings in Japan and abroad and have published them in several papers.

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