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Unnested Aversion to s-th Degree Inequality

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  • Marc Dubois

    (GREDI Université de Sherbrooke)

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The paper characterizes the necessary and sufficient condition under which additively separable social welfare functions are averse to s-th degree inequality. For s>1, the result states that aversion to (s+1)-th degree inequality is neither a weaker nor a stronger attitude than aversion to s-th degree inequality, hence it is not an extension of the Pigou-Dalton condition. This statement makes room to several attitudes to inequality such as aversion to upside inequality and elitism, among others.

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  • Marc Dubois, 2019. "Unnested Aversion to s-th Degree Inequality," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 39(4), pages 2374-2380.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-18-00948
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    1. Gayant, Jean-Pascal & Le Pape, Nicolas, 2017. "Increasing Nth degree inequality," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 185-189.
    2. Fleurbaey, Marc & Michel, Philippe, 2001. "Transfer principles and inequality aversion, with an application to optimal growth," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 42(1), pages 1-11, July.
    3. Marc Dubois, 2016. "A note on the normative content of the Atkinson inequality aversion parameter," Post-Print hal-01837118, HAL.
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