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Rationing with time: time-cost ordeals’ burdens and distributive effects

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Individuals often face administrative hurdles in attempting to access health care, public programmes, and other legal statuses and entitlements. These ordeals are the products, directly or indirectly, of institutional and policy design choices. I argue that evaluating whether such ordeals are justifiable or desirable instruments of social policy depends on assessing, beyond their targeting effects, the process-related burdens they impose on those attempting to navigate them and these burdens’ distributive effects. I here examine specifically how ordeals that levy time costs reduce and constrain individuals’ free time, and how such time-cost ordeals may thereby create, deepen and compound disadvantages.

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  • Rose, Julie L., 2021. "Rationing with time: time-cost ordeals’ burdens and distributive effects," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 37(1), pages 50-63, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:37:y:2021:i:1:p:50-63_5
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    1. Piotr Dworczak, 2022. "Equity-efficiency trade-off in quasi-linear environments," GRAPE Working Papers 70, GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics.
    2. Pierce, Jason R. & Giurge, Laura & Aeon, Brad, 2024. "Time theft: exposing a subtle yet serious driver of socioeconomic inequality," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 121354, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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