Search Results - subject:"Sen’s social welfare function"

A social‐psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen’s measures of inequality and social welfare

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - In: Kyklos 74 (2021) 4, pp. 552-566

booster of social welfare in Sen’s social welfare function. Quite surprisingly, we find that a marginal increase of income for … Sen’s social welfare function. … Gini coefficient increases. By integrating our approach to the construction of the Gini coefficient with Sen’s social …

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An adverse social welfare consequence of a rich-to-poor income transfer : a relative deprivation approach

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2017

A transfer from a richer individual to poorer A transfer from a richer individual to poorer seems to be the most seems to be the most intuitive and straightforward way of reducing income inequality in a society. However, can such a transfer reduce the welfare of the society? We show that a rich...

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