The Gini coefficient: majority voting and social welfare

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2014.04.012zbMATH Open1297.91065OpenAlexW2085825141MaRDI QIDQ403732FDOQ403732

Juan Gabriel Rodríguez, Rafael Salas

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2014.04.012

zbMATH Keywords

majority votingGini coefficientsymmetric distributionmedian-mean ratiosocial evaluation function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Voting theory (91B12) Welfare economics (91B15)

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