Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "JEL Classification Number: D63"

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    • A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures 
      Foster, James E. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which ...
    • Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism 
      Trannoy, Alain; Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      Social welfare dominance criteria based on critical-level generalized utilitarian social welfare functions are investigated. An analogue of a generalized Lorenz curve called a generalized concentration curve is introduced. ...
    • Generalized Gini Indices of Equality of Opportunity 
      Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2001)
      This article considers the ranking of profiles of opportunity sets on the basis of their equality. A version of the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle that is appropriate for the measurement of opportunity inequality is ...
    • Measurement Theory and the Foundations of Utilitarianism 
      Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      This article reconsiders the Harsanyi-Sen debate concerning whether Harsanyi is justified in interpreting his Aggregation and Impartial Observer Theorems as providing axiomatizations of utilitarianism. Sen's criticism and ...
    • Multidimensional Generalized Gini Indices 
      Gajdos, Thibault; Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      The axioms used to characterize the generalized Gini social evaluation orderings for one-dimensional distributions are extended to the multidimensional attributes case. A social evaluation ordering is shown to have a ...
    • Shared Destinies and the Measurement and of Social Risk Equity 
      Gajdos, Thibault; Weymark, John A.; Zoli, Claudio (Vanderbilt University, 2008)
      The evaluation of social risk equity for alternative probability distributions over the potential sets of fatalities is analyzed axiomatically. Fishburn and Straffin [Equity considerations in public risks valuation, ...
    • Social Choice: Recent Developments 
      Bossert, Walter; Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      Abstract: In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to ...
    • The Normative Approach to the Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality 
      Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      This article provides an introduction to the normative approach to multidimensional inequality measurement. Multivariate generalizations of the procedures used to construct univariate inequality indices from social evaluation ...