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Equity-efficiency Trade-off

Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off is an economic principle that identifies the tension between maximizing the overall productivity or output of a system (efficiency) and ensuring fair or just distribution of resources and opportunities among individuals or groups (equity), wherein enhancements in one often result in reductions in the other.

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152

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff

Russell Keat · Philosophical Books · 1980 · 1.6K citations

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Equity, envy, and efficiency

Hal R. Varian · Journal of Economic Theory · 1974 · 1K citations · Full text

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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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The quality of schooling : quantity alone is misleading

Jere R. Behrman · American Economic Review · 1983 · 495 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

274

  1. EP
    E. Philip Davis

    Brunel University of London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 64 citations

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  2. HA
    Hafiz Anwar Ullah Khan

    New York University, United States

    2 publications · 30 citations

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  3. KM
    Koichi Mera

    World Bank, United States

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  4. XP
    Xunzhang Pan

    Tsinghua University, China

    2 publications · 61 citations

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  5. JR
    Jere R. Behrman

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    2 publications · 575 citations

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Institutions

173

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    784 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    335 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    481 citations

  5. Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    285 citations

  6. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    325 citations

  7. Hitotsubashi University

    Tokyo, Japan

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    97 citations

  8. Paris School of Economics

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    441 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 6 publications · 405 citations

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  2. Journal of Economic Theory

    JET · 4 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 4 publications · 184 citations

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  4. Journal of Public Economics

    4 publications · 445 citations

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  5. The Quarterly Journal of Economics

    QJE · 3 publications · 295 citations

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