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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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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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Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
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