Search Results - subject_exact:"Social welfare function"

Judging social priority and the marginal utility of income among individuals

Hammitt, James K. - 2026

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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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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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How does predistribution affect redistribution?

Kanbur, Ravi; Tuomala, Matti - 2025

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How does predistribution affect redistribution?

Kanbur, Ravi; Tuomala, Matti - 2024

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How does predistribution affect redistribution?

Kanbur, Ravi; Tuomala, Matti - 2024

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Games and social choice

Carvajalino, Juan; Igersheim, Herrade - 2026 - Draft March 2026

This article reexamines the contexts in which Arrow's Social Choice and Individual Values (1951) emerged, clarifying the often acknowledged yet unexplained influence of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. It situates Arrow's work within his training in logic and statistics in 1940s New York...

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Strategy-proof mechanism design with boundedly rational agents : theory and experiment

Nishizaki, Katsuhiko - 2026

In a strategy-proof mechanism, implementation theory mostly assumes that each agent is rational in the sense that the agent reveals its true preference to induce its most preferred outcome. This assumption is sufficient to guarantee that the agent seeks such an outcome, but not necessary because...

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What makes a tax evader?

Bergolo, Marcelo; Leites, Martín; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; … - 2026

Why do some individuals evade taxes while others do not? We study this question using administrative tax records from Uruguay linked to a tailored survey of taxpayers. Using third-party reports, we measure individual income under-reporting as an indicator of evasion. We then examine how three...

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What makes a tax evader?

Bergolo, Marcelo; Leites, Martín; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; … - 2026

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Parental mental health and the economic preferences of the next generation

Bertermann, Alexander; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2026

This paper provides the first evidence that children’s economic preferences vary systematically with parental mental health. Using experimentally elicited measures of economic preferences from more than 4,500 children in Bangladesh, we document that children of parents with indications of...

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Parental mental health and the economic preferences of the next generation

Bertermann, Alexander; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2026

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Parental mental health and the economic preferences of the next generation

Bertermann, Alexander; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2026

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Parental mental health and the economic preferences of the next generation

Bertermann, Alexander; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2026

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Public support for welfare and redistributive policies in Ireland

Capistrano, Daniel; Maître, Bertrand; Russell, Helen - 2026

The current report presents findings of a research project that explored attitudes towards welfare and redistributive policies among Irish residents. Public support for the welfare state is an important foundation for democratic governments to pursue the policies needed to alleviate poverty in...

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Social preferences towards the environment : assessing and quantifying public support for sustainable development

Liashenko, Oksana - 2026

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Social preferences for public provision of services : experimental evidence from Latin America

Bejarano, Hernán; Busso, Matias; Santos, Juan Francisco - 2026

We study how individuals in six Latin American countries value public versus private provision of education and healthcare using a survey experiment. Respondents were randomly assigned to vignettes that vary income, service quality, and provider type. Perceived quality is the main driver of...

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Collective decisions under uncertainty : efficiency, ex-ante fairness, and normalization

Kurata, Leo; Nakamura, Kensei - 2026 - Shared: January 15, 2026

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How prosocial motives shape market exchange : experimental evidence from street vending

Jain, Ronak - 2026 - Revised version, January 2026

Markets are often seen as impersonal mechanisms of exchange, yet many real-world transactions are deeply social. This paper examines how prosocial motives interact with economic exchange and how this affects market outcomes. I study these questions in the context of street vending - a ubiquitous...

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Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule

Le, Minh Tung; Saporiti, Alejandro - 2026

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Aristotle's social choice

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2026

We describe Aristotle's mathematical model of weighted voting to explain and implement decision-making in democracies, oligarchies and the mixed states that combine elements of both systems. This model, originally presented in textual form, extends the known history of social choice theory back...

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A core framework and an impossibility result for dynamic social evaluation under irreversible constraints, part 1

Shimada, Etsusaku - 2026

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Do humans bargain differently with AI? : evidence from alternating-offer games

Fu, Yuhao; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Wang, Haitao - 2026

Artificial intelligence increasingly participates in economic interactions not only as a tool, but also as an autonomous bargaining counterpart negotiating on behalf of firms, platforms, and consumers. Yet little is known about how humans respond psychologically and strategically when bargaining...

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Evolutionary branching of social preferences in a public good provision game

Cheikbossian, Guillaume; Peña, Jorge - 2026

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Lifting the veil of ignorance - survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution

Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2026

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution, drawing on a large-scale online survey in Germany. Specifically, we assess participants' knowledge of the German wealth distribution, their perceived position within it, and the effects of two information...

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Lifting the veil of ignorance : survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution

Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2024

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Revealed preference for redistribution and the role of government

Rodemeier, Matthias; Sun, Gregory - 2026

We study how Americans trade off the welfare of the poor versus the rich using incentivized transfer experiments. Combining this with estimates of the Elasticity of Taxable Income, we quantify optimal income tax rates in the US. Revealed preferences show strong concern for the poor across the...

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An exploratory foray into the inclination to cooperate in spite of cooperation-induced stress

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2026

We establish a new approach to the modeling of cooperation, and we formulate a new solution concept for cooperative games. We do this by constructing a game of cooperation between individuals who exhibit distaste for relative deprivation, RD, in the sense that they experience stress when their...

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Normative aspects in modeling the urgency of climate policy

Guerriero, Arthur Zito; Kapeller, Jakob; Ankel-Peters, Jörg - 2026

The social cost of carbon (SCC) isthe central concept of benefit-cost analysis in climate economics. The SCC provides guidance on the urgency of climate policy as it expresses the present value of expected future damages associated with the emission of one additional ton of CO2. This paper...

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Normative aspects in modeling the urgency of climate policy

Guerriero, Arthur Zito; Kapeller, Jakob; Ankel-Peters, Jörg - 2026

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Type-anonymity and strategy-proofness on a domain of single-peaked and single-dipped preferences

Gallo, Oihane - 2026

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Inequity aversion in multi-task agency problems

Snegirev, Sergei; Schöndube-Pirchegger, Barbara - 2026

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Rawls's maximin and optimal taxation theory

Walraevens, Benoît - 2023

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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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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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Intergenerational welfare assessments

Barcons, Sergi; Dávila, Eduardo; Schaab, Andreas - 2025

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

Stark, Oded - 2025

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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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Reassessing qualitative self-assessments and experimental validation

Chapman, Jonathan; Ortoleva, Pietro; Snowberg, Erik; … - 2025

Qualitative self-assessments of economic preferences have recently gained popularity, often supported by experimental validation, a method that links them to choices in incentivized elicitations. We illustrate theoretically that experimental validation may fail to produce reliable new measures....

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Is inequality always unfair? : experimental evidence on preferences for redistribution in Mozambique and Viet Nam

Ferreira, Ines A.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Tarp, Finn - 2025

Knowledge of the factors driving people's views on redistribution in the Global South remains limited. While these societies occupy top positions in inequality rankings, redistribution levels tend to be lower. We combine survey and experimental data from Mozambique and Viet Nam to test whether...

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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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Escaping Arrow's theorem : the advantage-standard model

Holliday, Wesley H.; Kelley, Mikayla - 2025

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Sabotage-proof social ranking solutions

Suzuki, Takahiro; Horita, Masahide - 2025

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Consistency and social choice

Mallik, Arkarup Basu; Bhattacharya, Mihir - 2025

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An indifference result for social choice rules in large societies

Bednay, Dezső; Fleiner, Balázs; Tasnádi, Attila - 2025

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The measurement of changes in distributional preferences

Cui, Chi; Dai, Ming; Alevy, Jonathan E. - 2025

This study explores the way in which social information about giving impacts the stability of distributional preferences. We designed a two-stage treatment which varied the information participants received about the maximum amounts given to recipients. Information on maximum giving can...

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Truthful cake sharing

Bei, Xiaohui; Lu, Xinhang; Warut Suksompong - 2025

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Boundedness of the range of a strategy-proof social choice function

Serizawa, Shigehiro; Weymark, John A. - 2025

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Intergenerational population ethics

Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2025

This paper characterizes a novel class of welfare criteria for settings with endogenous population. The core innovation is to treat parents’ fertility preferences as ethically relevant, deferring to them on the quality--quantity trade-off under conditions of equality. The resulting family of...

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