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A Theoretical Treatment of Indices of Absolute Inequality

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  1. Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, 1994. "The evolution of the standard of living in Spain, 1973-74 to 1980-81," UC3M Working papers. Economics 2909, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía.
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  9. Satya R. Chakravarty, 2009. "Equity and efficiency as components of a social welfare function," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 5(2), pages 181-199, June.
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  21. Jehle, Geoffrey, 1990. "Inequality in Pakistan: A Social Welfare Approach," MPRA Paper 73429, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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  36. Puggioni, Daniela & Stefanou, Spiro E., 2019. "The value of being socially responsible: A primal-dual approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1090-1103.
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  38. Arthur Lewbel & Krishna Pendakur, 2009. "Tricks with Hicks: The EASI Demand System," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 99(3), pages 827-863, June.
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  40. Ruiz-Castillo, Javier & Vargas, Carmen, 1996. "A social welfare model for the evaluation of the spanish income tax system," UC3M Working papers. Economics 4100, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía.
  41. Glenn Sheriff & Kelly B. Maguire, 2020. "Health Risk, Inequality Indexes, and Environmental Justice," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 40(12), pages 2661-2674, December.
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  43. Erin T. Mansur & Glenn Sheriff, 2019. "Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's RECLAIM Program," NBER Working Papers 25666, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  44. Kelly Maguire & Glenn Sheriff, 2011. "Comparing Distributions of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 8(5), pages 1-20, May.
  45. Robert G. Chambers, 2023. "Path-based set representations," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 249-256, December.
  46. Satya R. Chakravarty & Amita Majumder & Sonali Roy, 2007. "A Treatment Of Absolute Indices Of Polarization," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 58(2), pages 273-293, June.
  47. Chambers, Robert G. & Fare, Rolf & Grosskopf, Shawna, 1996. "Productivity Growth in APEC Countries," Working Papers 197843, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  48. Satya Chakravarty, 2001. "The Variance as a subgroup decomposable measure of inequality," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 53(1), pages 79-95, January.
  49. Robert G. Chambers & Tigran Melkonyan & John Quiggin, 2022. "Incomplete preferences, willingness to pay, and willingness to accept," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 74(3), pages 727-761, October.
  50. Kerstens, Kristiaan & Mounir, Amine & Van de Woestyne, Ignace, 2010. "Benchmarking Mean-Variance Portfolios. Using a Shortage Function: The Choice of Direction Vector," Working Papers 2010/01, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management.
  51. Briec, Walter & Dumas, Audrey & Mekki, Ayman, 2021. "Directional distance functions and social welfare: Some axiomatic and dual properties," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 181-190.
  52. Sheriff, Glenn & Maguire, Kelly, 2013. "Ranking Distributions of Environmental Outcomes Across Population Groups," National Center for Environmental Economics-NCEE Working Papers 280914, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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