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Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy
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Attention to Distribution in U.S. Regulatory Analyses. Lisa Robinson, James Hammitt, Richard Zeckhauser, Summer 2016, Paper, "Scholars, decision makers, interest groups, and other concerned citizens are often interested in the distribution of regulatory impacts. To what extent does a regulation benefit or harm those who have high or low incomes, are in good or poor health, are more or less vulnerable to disease, or are very young or very old? Does the regulation disproportionately affect members of minority or other disadvantaged groups? Determining whether and how to address these questions raises thorny normative issues about how to weigh the impacts on different groups as well as the choice of policy instruments. Yet to address these normative concerns, we first need data on impacts—data that are rarely readily available."