About the Right Weight of the Social Welfare Function when Needs Differ

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About the Right Weight of the Social Welfare Function when Needs Differ

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Alain Trannoy () (Ehess, Greqam-Idep)

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When equivalence scales are used to compute the well-being of individuals, two possible weighting methods of the different household types have been proposed, the first one resorts to the family size and the second to the equivalence scale itself. The latter is criticized on the ground that it does not respect an anonymity axiom. We show that this criticism vanishes in the standard microeconomic setting.

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Paper provided by Institut d'economie publique (IDEP), Marseille, France in its series IDEP Working Papers with number 0304.

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- Trannoy, Alain, 2003. "About the right weights of the social welfare function when needs differ," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 81(3), pages 383-387, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty
D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation

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NEP-ALL-2005-03-13 (All new papers)
NEP-MIC-2005-03-13 (Microeconomics)

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Glewwe, Paul, 1991. "Household equivalence scales and the measurement of inequality : Transfers from the poor to the rich could decrease inequality," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(2), pages 211-216, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Bourguignon, Francois, 1989. "Family size and social utility : Income distribution dominance criteria," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 42(1), pages 67-80, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Ebert, Udo, 1997. "Social Welfare When Needs Differ: An Axiomatic Approach," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 64(254), pages 233-44, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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Anthony Shorrocks, 2004. "Inequality and welfare evaluation of heterogeneous income distributions," Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 193-218, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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