The goal of this paper is to contribute to the economic literature on ethnic and cultural diversity by proposing a new …) index. We characterize a measure of diversity among individuals that takes as a primitive the individuals, as opposed to …

The notion of diversity is an issue that is of relevance in several contexts. For example, the biodiversity of a given … ecological environment and the diversity of the options available to a decision maker have attracted some attention in recent … research. This paper provides an axiomatic approach to the measurement of diversity. We characterize two nested classes of …

This paper analyzes the measurement of the diversity of sets based on the dissimilarity of the objects contained in the … set. We discuss axiomatic approaches to diversity measurement and examine the considerations underlying the application of … in the context of diversity. …