Rehepapp and Robin Hood: Tricksters or Heroes?

The Robin Hood Syndrome:

Street gangs pose serious threats to their members, to their victims, and to communities at large. The behavior problems associated with gangs are many and varied. Suggested causes for the emergence of gangs are complicated, and many of them are interdependent. Interventions planned to rehabilitate individuals and to weaken the power of the gang are numerous. Research shows that few of these in...

Interregional Inequality and Robin Hood Politics

This paper studies the implications of interregional redistributive taxation on interregional and interpersonal inequality and on social welfare. We introduce a model of two regions, where individuals are differentiated by their ability and opportunity, the former being determined by heritage and the latter by their residence. Moreover, agents are immobile and respond to interregional transfers...

[Bevacizumab or ranibizumab, or the tale of Robin Hood and King Richard Lion Heart].

On Worst-Case Robin Hood Hashing

We consider open addressing hashing and implement it by using the Robin Hood strategy; that is, in case of collision, the element that has traveled the farthest can stay in the slot. We hash ∼ αn elements into a table of size n where each probe is independent and uniformly distributed over the table, and α < 1 is a constant. Let Mn be the maximum search time for any of the elements in the table...

Crowdsourcing the Robin Hood effect in cities

Socioeconomic inequalities in cities are embedded in space and result in neighborhood effects, whose harmful consequences have proved very hard to counterbalance efficiently by planning policies alone. Considering redistribution of money flows as a first step toward improved spatial equity, we study a bottom-up approach that would rely on a slight evolution of shopping mobility practices. Build...