Social Security in a "Moral Economy": An Empirical Analysis for Java
通过家庭数据分析爪哇农村和城市地区私人转移支付作为社会保障系统的表现，发现农村转移支付缩小收入不平等，而城市则不然，且转移支付倾向于流向弱势群体。
Private transfer payments are modeled as outcomes of a constrained social choice pro blem facing donors. The approach is applied to a large household leve l data set for Java and hypotheses are tested concerning the performa nce of the moral economy as a social security system. Transfer be havior is found to be very different between rural and urban areas. W hile transfer receipts and outlays are income inequality reducing in rural areas, this is not the case in urban areas. There is also evidence of transfers being targeted to disadvantaged households such as the sick, elderly, and (for urban areas) the unemployed. Copyright 1988 by MIT Press.