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Prioritarian poverty comparisons with cardinal and ordinal attributes

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  • Kristof BOSMANS
  • Luc LAUWERS
  • Erwin OOGHE

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The ethical view of prioritarianism holds the following: if an extra bundle of attributes is to be allocated to either of two individuals, then priority should be given to the worse off among the two. We consider multidimensional poverty comparisons with cardinal and ordinal attributes and propose three axioms that operationalize the prioritarian view. Each priority axiom, in combination with a handful of standard properties, characterizes a class of poverty measures. We provide an empirical application to European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data. For this application, we develop a unanimity criterion within the setting of a single cardinal attribute (income) augmented by several binary ordinal attributes.

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  • Kristof BOSMANS & Luc LAUWERS & Erwin OOGHE, 2013. "Prioritarian poverty comparisons with cardinal and ordinal attributes," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces13.10, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.
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    4. Nicolas Gravel & Brice Magdalou & Patrick Moyes, 2021. "Ranking distributions of an ordinal variable," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 71(1), pages 33-80, February.
    5. Dubois, Marc & Mussard, Stéphane, 2019. "Utility and income transfer principles: Interplay and incompatibility," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 46-56.
    6. Rolf Aaberge & Andrea Brandolini, 2014. "Multidimensional poverty and inequality," Discussion Papers 792, Statistics Norway, Research Department.
    7. Erwin Ooghe & Erik Schokkaert & Hannes Serruys, 2023. "Fair Earnings Tax Reforms," CESifo Working Paper Series 10242, CESifo.

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