About the Right Weight of the Social Welfare Function when Needs Differ.

When equivalence scales are used to compute the well-being of individuals, two possible weighting methods of the different household types have been proposed, the first one resorts to the family size and the second to the equivalence scale itself. The latter is criticized on the ground that it does not respect an anonymity axiom. We show that this criticism vanishes in the standard microeconomic setting.

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Year of publication:	2003-04
Authors:	Trannoy, Alain
Institutions:	Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)
Subject:	social welfare \| equivalence scale \| weights \| anonymity \| indirect utility function

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IDEP Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 0304 5 pages
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; I3 - Welfare and Poverty ; D13 - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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