A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application

DOI10.1007/S00355-008-0317-9MaRDI QIDQ2272181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kaushik Basu, Travis Lee

Publication date 6 August 2009

Published in Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://cae.economics.cornell.edu/08-04.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

decomposabilityindex of illiteracyisolated illiteracymonotonicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts (62P30) Mathematical geography and demography (91D20)

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