Search Results - subject:"Social welfare function"

On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well‐Behaved Social Welfare Function

Stark, Oded - In: Kyklos 78 (2025) 2, pp. 301-304

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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Politicians, institutional incentives, and citizen welfare : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India

Banerjee, Prasenjit; Iversen, Vegard; Mitra, Sandip; … - In: Oxford economic papers 77 (2025) 2, pp. 333-352

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Welfare vs. utility

Dietrich, Franz - 2025

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Shallow meritocracy

Andre, Peter - In: The review of economic studies : RES 92 (2025) 2, pp. 772-807

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Unrewarded cooperation

Konovalov, Arkady; Luzyanin, Daniil; Popov, Sergey V. - 2025

Experiment participants in a social dilemma game choose cooperation over defection, even though neither is more beneficial. High levels of cooperation cannot be explained by favorable labels for actions, collusion, k-level reasoning, quantal response behavior, or misplaced optimism about others'...

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Economic modeling of "axiological rationality" : a tedious challenge

Serra, Daniel; Benslimane, Adda - 2025

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The entanglement of attitudes toward inequality : the theoretical background and measurement for the EU countries in 2021

Kot, Stanisław Maciej - 2025

This paper assumes two kinds of social planners who evaluate income distributions concerning social welfare, economic inequality and poverty. The first kind of social planner, SPε , comprises averters to income inequality as measured by the normative parameter ε. The second kind of social...

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Position uncertainty in a prisoner's dilemma game : an experiment

Anwar, Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib; Georgalos, Konstantinos; … - 2025

Gallice and Monzón (2019) present a natural environment that sustains full cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of self-interested agents. They demonstrate that in a sequential public goods game, where agents lack knowledge of their position in the sequence but can...

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Rationalizable incentives : interim rationalizable implementation of correspondences

Kunimoto, Takashi; Saran, Rene; Serrano, Roberto - 2025

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On strategy-proofness and the salience of single-peakedness in a private goods allotment problem

Chatterji, Shurojit; Massó, Jordi; Serizawa, Shigehiro - In: Games and economic behavior 150 (2025), pp. 48-70

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