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Age groups are the appropriate units of justice for assessing intergenerational justice across overlapping generations. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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This research aims to clarify the appropriate unit of justice across overlapping generations, focusing on age groups versus birth cohorts.

March 13, 2026Global PolicyOpen Access

Justice Between Coexisting Generations: Birth Cohorts or Age Groups?

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AGAnna Elisabetta GaleottiUniversità degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”

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Examines intergenerational justice, comparing age groups and birth cohorts, suggesting a new framework for resource distribution.

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This research aims to clarify the appropriate unit of justice across overlapping generations, focusing on age groups versus birth cohorts.
Conceptual analysis of justice in the context of intergenerational relations.
Distinction between age groups and birth cohorts.
Evaluation of age as a category for resource distribution across different life stages.
Development of an age-sufficiency principle for comparing age segments.
Age groups are identified as the appropriate unit for intergenerational justice across three dimensions.
Relational and political justice favor age groups over birth cohorts.
Distributive fairness requires consideration of different capabilities and needs at various life stages.

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Anna Elisabetta Galeotti (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b3ad1302a1e69014ccf504 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70149

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