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Inequality averse collective choice [PDF]

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1998
Let \(\Sigma_{n}\) be the class of all compact comprehensive and convex sets in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}_{+}\). The main result in this paper is the following theorem: If \(F\) is a solution concept defined on \(\Sigma_{n}\) which satisfies LPO (Lorentz Pareto Optimality), SARP (Strong Axiom of Revealed Preference) and PC (Pareto Continuity), then it must be ...
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Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–2012

Economies, 2020
We investigate the evolution of multidimensional inequality of well-being in Vietnam in the period 2002–2012 using household survey data. Our study focuses on four crucial dimensions of human welfare: consumption, education, health and housing.
Thi Kim Thanh Bui, Guido Erreygers
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Societal values for health inequality aversion via vaccine and non-vaccine interventions in Canada – a benefit trade-off analysis

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Canada is committed to reducing avoidable health inequalities associated with infectious diseases. However, conventional economic evaluation, a critical component of health technology assessments informing health resource allocation, fails ...
Prof Beate Sander, Dr Shehzad Ali, Dr Sharmistha Mishra, Dr Beate Sander   +3 more
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Comparing degrees of inequality aversion [PDF]

Social Choice and Welfare, 2006
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Public preferences for reducing health inequality in the US: a national survey

BMC Medical Ethics
Background There are sometimes trade-offs between improving total health and reducing health inequality among social groups. When faced with such trade-offs, decision makers need information about public values.
Kyoko Shimamoto, Tim Doran, Richard Cookson   +2 more
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Multi-Round Trust Game Quantifies Inter-Individual Differences in Social Exchange from Adolescence to Adulthood

Computational Psychiatry, 2021
Investing in strangers in a socio-economic exchange is risky, as we may be uncertain whether they will reciprocate. Nevertheless, the potential rewards for cooperating can be great.
Andreas Hula, Michael Moutoussis, Geert-Jan Will, Danae Kokorikou, Andrea M. Reiter, Gabriel Ziegler, NSPN Consortium, Ed Bullmore, Peter B. Jones, Ian Goodyer, Peter Fonagy, P. Read Montague, Raymond J. Dolan   +12 more
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Social preferences shaped by conflicting motives: When enhancing social welfare creates unfavorable comparisons for the self

Judgment and Decision Making, 2012
The construction of social preferences often requires one to reconcile various social motives, such as concern with unfavorable inequality and maximization of social welfare.
Shoham Choshen-Hillel, Ilan Yaniv
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Mobility rules: why New Zealanders oppose redistribution

Kōtuitui, 2022
Observers have noted that New Zealanders are less inequality averse and less in favour of redistribution than one would expect given actual levels of income and wealth inequality in the country.
Philip Nel
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Incomplete Information about Social Preferences Explains Equal Division and Delay in Bargaining

Games, 2012
Two deviations of alternating-offer bargaining behavior from economic theory are observed together, yet have been studied separately. Players who could secure themselves a large surplus share if bargainers were purely self-interested incompletely exploit
Stefan Kohler
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On the Curvature Properties of “Long” Social Welfare Functions

Mathematics, 2023
This study characterizes the concavity properties of the Jorgenson and Slesnick’s social welfare function that is likely the most empirically relevant function among the family of “long” welfare functions.
Piera Mazzoleni, Elisa Pagani, Federico Perali   +2 more
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