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Optimal lockdown and social welfare. [PDF]
J Popul Econ, 2022 This paper examines the robustness of the optimal lockdown strategy to the postulated social welfare criterion. We show that utilitarianism can, under some conditions, imply a COVID-19 variant of Parfit's (1984) Repugnant Conclusion: for any (interior) lockdown with life periods of low quality, there must be a stricter lockdown that is regarded as ...
Pestieau P, Ponthiere G.
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Fair Classification and Social Welfare [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Now that machine learning algorithms lie at the center of many resource allocation pipelines, computer scientists have been unwittingly cast as partial social planners. Given this state of affairs, important questions follow. What is the relationship between fairness as defined by computer scientists and notions of social welfare?
Lily Hu, Yiling Chen
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Algorithmic monoculture and social welfare. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 SignificanceAlgorithmic monoculture is a growing concern in the use of algorithms for high-stakes screening decisions in areas such as employment and lending. If many firms use the same algorithm, even if it is more accurate than the alternatives, the resulting “monoculture” may be susceptible to correlated failures, much as a monocultural system is in
Kleinberg J, Raghavan M.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 In this paper we show that if the Pareto relation is acyclic then the set of all Pareto optimal social states coincides with chosen social states of acyclic Paretian social welfare relations. Subsequently we show that given an acyclic Paretian social welfare relations the set of all social states chosen by it coincides with the set of all states chosen
Lahiri, Somdeb
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Negotiating Socially Optimal Allocations of Resources [PDF]
Journal Of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 25, pages
315-348, 2006, 2011 A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice theory to assess the social welfare of such an agent society. In this paper, we study an abstract negotiation framework where agents can agree on multilateral deals to exchange bundles ...
Endriss, U. +3 more
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Efficiency of Truthful and Symmetric Mechanisms in One-sided Matching [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 We study the efficiency (in terms of social welfare) of truthful and symmetric mechanisms in one-sided matching problems with {\em dichotomous preferences} and {\em normalized von Neumann-Morgenstern preferences}. We are particularly interested in the well-known {\em Random Serial Dictatorship} mechanism. For dichotomous preferences, we first show that
A. Bhalgat +6 more
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A systematic review of studies on the factors affecting the quality of life in the general population of Iran [PDF]
Savād-i Salāmat, 2021 Background and Objective: The quality-of-life index is like a graph that describes the situation of all people living in a region or country and includes economic, social, and human variables.
Asieh Namazi +4 more
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Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China’s Automobile Market
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021 This study documents the presence of local protectionism and quantifies its impacts on market competition and social welfare in the context of China’s automobile market.
P. Barwick, Sheng Cao, Shanjun Li
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The Stakeholder Corporation and Social Welfare [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 International ...
Fleurbaey, Marc, Ponthière, Grégory
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Robotics for social welfare [PDF]
Journal of Accessibility and Design for All, 2012 Supported by developments in the field of social robotics, virtual worlds and ICT tools it is possible to build new solutions in health and welfare. Two projects are described in this article. They are intended to improve efficiency and quality of current therapeutic procedures.
Fernández Cossío, Lucía +2 more
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