Muller, Christophe; Trannoy, Alain - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 3-4, pp. 239-246
This paper proposes a dominance approach to study inequality of well-being across countries. We consider a class of well-being indices based on the three attributes used in the HDI (Human Development Index). Indices are required to satisfy: preference for egalitarian marginal distributions of...