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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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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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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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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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rate and white income levels, whereas black migration should be a function of black unemployment rates and black income … per recipient (arguably because such states do less income redistribution) whereas black migrants prefer to move to higher … welfare states (where the welfare serves as a form of higher income and/or a form of higher unemployment insurance). …
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living cost level is found to be an increasing function of population density, average income, and the degree of urbanization …
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to move shorter rather than longer distances. White migrants were more likely to move to higher per capita income states …
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. Ordinary least squares results imply that the cost of housing is positively a function of median family income, miles of …
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cooling degree days, real per capita personal disposable income, and the real unit price of natural gas. Annual per …
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