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Climate Policy under Sustainable Discounted Utilitarianism

Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2011

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...

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A Complete and Strongly Anonymous Leximin Relation on Infinite Streams

Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - CESifo - 2011

Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper defines a complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite...

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Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism in Models of Economic Growth

Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - CESifo - 2009

Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). SDU respects the interests of future generations and resolves...

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Justifying Social Discounting: The Rank-Discounted Utilitarian Approach

Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2010

The discounted utilitarian criterion for infinite horizon social choice has been criticized for treating generations unequally. We propose an extended rank-discounted utilitarian (ERDU) criterion instead. The criterion amounts to discounted utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats...

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The Family in Flux: Household Decision-Making in Latin America

Duryea, Suzanne; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view with an aggregate approach, this volume uncovers clues to declining fertility, skyrocketing female...

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Portrait of the Poor: An Assets-Based Approach

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; Gray-Molina, George - Inter-American Development Bank

caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors … analyze the ownership and use of income-generating assets, as well as access to them. Where there are market imperfections …

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Wage Shocks and Consumption Variability in Mexico during the 1990s

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between economic shocks to relative male wages and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s, which is a period characterized by high volatility. In addition to performing this type of analysis for Mexico for the first time, the...

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Household Savings and Income Distribution in Mexico

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7 percent to 19.8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external saving from 6.9 to 0.5 percent between 1994 and 1995. The overall reduction was not more dramatic...

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …

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Portrait of the Poor: An Assets-Based Approach

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; Gray-Molina, George - Inter-American Development Bank

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