Dominance criteria for welfare comparisons: using equivalent income to describe differences in needs

DOI10.1007/S11238-009-9140-8zbMATH Open1274.91182OpenAlexW2080970706MaRDI QIDQ989922FDOQ989922

Authors: Udo Ebert 

Publication date: 23 August 2010

Published in: Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-009-9140-8

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zbMATH Keywords

social welfaretransfersdiffering needsdominance criterialiving standard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15)

Cites Work

• Welfare comparisons with bounded equivalence scales.
• Family size and social utility. Income distribution dominance criteria
• On evaluating social welfare by sequential generalized Lorenz dominance
• On bounded dominance criteria
• Sequential dominance and weighted utilitarianism

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• Decomposing bivariate dominance for social welfare comparisons
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• On comparing heterogeneous populations: Is there really a conflict between welfarism and a concern for greater equality in living standards?
• Sequential dominance and weighted utilitarianism
• Welfare comparisons with bounded equivalence scales.
• Inequality and isoelastic equivalence scales: restrictions and implications
• Comparisons of heterogeneous distributions and dominance criteria

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