Search Results - subject:"Social welfare function"

On a transformation of the Gini coefficient into a well-behaved social welfare function

Stark, Oded - 2025

function rather than having the Gini coefficient feature as an input in a social welfare function as in Sen (1973 and 1997 …), Sen (1976), and Sen (1982). The "Gini social welfare function" assigns weights that reflect preferences to aggregate … income and to aggregate income-based stress (income inequality), a desirable property that a social welfare function in which …

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On a transformation of the gini coefficient into a well-behaved social welfare function

Stark, Oded - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 78 (2025) 2, pp. 301-304

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On a transformation of the Gini coefficient into a well-behaved social welfare function

Stark, Oded - 2025

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Normative judgments implicit in the tax system : a simulation approach

Isaak, Niklas; Jessen, Robin - 2024

How much does society value redistribution? The common method to derive inverse-optimum welfare weights is by inverting an optimal-tax model. Our alternative imposes fewer restrictions on labor supply and enables comparisons across household types. We use a structural labor supply model to...

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Normative judgments implicit in the tax system : a simulation approach

Isaak, Niklas; Jessen, Robin - 2024

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How does predistribution affect redistribution?

Kanbur, Ravi; Tuomala, Matti - 2024

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Assessing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on wellbeing : a comparison between CBA and SWF approaches for policies evaluation

Simeone, Enza - 2024

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Rawls's maximin and optimal taxation theory

Walraevens, Benoît - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 30 (2023) 5, pp. 860-882

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Truthful cake sharing

Bei, Xiaohui; Lu, Xinhang; Warut Suksompong - In: Social choice and welfare 64 (2025) 1/2, pp. 309-343

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Pay a lot to a few instead of a bit to all! : evidence from online donation experiments

Mitani, Yohei; Hanaki, Nobuyuki - 2025

We conduct an online donation dictator game experiment with over 1,300 participants, representative of the Japanese population, to investigate the relationship between the incentive scheme and prosocial behavior by systematically varying the stake size and probability of being paid, including...

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