About the Right Weight of the Social Welfare Function when Needs Differ
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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.
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Keywords
social welfare; equivalence scale; weights; anonymity; indirect utility function;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIC-2005-03-13 (Microeconomics)
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