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Equity Efficiency Trade-offs

Equity Efficiency Trade-Offs is a theoretical construct in social and economic analysis that identifies the tension between maximizing aggregate outcomes or resource utilization (efficiency) and ensuring fair or just distribution of resources and opportunities (equity), where improvements in one dimension may come at the cost of deterioration in the other.

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Equity-efficiency Trade-offs

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Options and Efficiency

Stephen A. Ross · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1976 · 854 citations

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Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. By Arthur M. Okun. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1975. Pp. 124. $6.95.)

Aaron Wíldavsky · American Political Science Review · 1977 · 794 citations

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O<scp>rganizational</scp> P<scp>rospects</scp>, I<scp>nfluence</scp> C<scp>osts</scp>, <scp>and</scp> O<scp>wnership</scp> C<scp>hanges</scp>

Margaret Meyer, Paul Milgrom, John Roberts · Journal of Economics & Management Strategy · 1992 · 471 citations

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Exploring the links between equity and efficiency in payments for environmental services: A conceptual approach

Unai Pascual, Roldán Muradian, Luis C. Rodríguez et al. · Ecological Economics · 2009 · 420 citations

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QALYs and the equity-efficiency trade-off

Adam Wagstaff · Journal of Health Economics · 1991 · 373 citations

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Authors

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  1. KM
    Koichi Mera

    World Bank, United States

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  2. AB
    Andrew Berg

    International Monetary Fund, United States

    2 publications · 43 citations

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  3. EM
    Emmanouil Mentzakis

    University of Southampton, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  4. WK
    Wojciech Kopczuk

    Columbia University, United States

    2 publications · 60 citations

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  5. RG
    Roger Gordon

    University of California San Diego, United States

    2 publications · 60 citations

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Institutions

138

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    477 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    739 citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    1.7K citations

  5. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    305 citations

  6. Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    297 citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    143 citations

  8. Paris School of Economics

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    441 citations

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Venues

  1. The Quarterly Journal of Economics

    QJE · 4 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Journal of Health Economics

    3 publications · 537 citations

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 3 publications · 90 citations

    3

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  5. Journal of Public Economics

    2 publications · 306 citations

    2

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