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Foundations of utilitarianism under risk and variable population
Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2021
Utilitarianism is the most prominent family of social welfare functions. We present three new axiomatic ….'s (1998) Expected Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism (ECLGU) is equivalent to a new axiom holding that it is better to … novel characterizations extend classic axiomatizations of utilitarianism from settings with either social risk or variable …
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A soul's view of the optimal population problem
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021
A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...
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Utilitarianism is implied by social and individual dominance
Gustafsson, Johan; Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2023
utilitarianism, in the variable-population setting, arises from a new, weak form of individual stochastic dominance with two … avoids prominent egalitarian objections to utilitarianism by only applying if certain correlations are preserved. Our result …
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Are two tax rates better than one?
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2009
Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...
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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...
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Why variable-population social orderings cannot escape the repugnant conclusion : proofs and implications
Spears, Dean; Budolfson, Mark - 2019
conclusion. Therefore, the repugnant conclusion provides no methodological guidance for theory or policymaking, because it cannot …
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Identification and estimation of hedonic models
Ekeland, Ivar (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Sharing rule identification for general collective consumption models
Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Lewbel, Arthur; … - 2012
We propose a method to identify bounds (i.e. set identification) on the sharing rule for a general collective household consumption model. Unlike the effects of distribution factors, it is well known that the level of the sharing rule cannot be uniquely identified without strong assumptions on...
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Fixed effects and variance components estimation in three-level meta-analysis
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2011
Meta-analytic methods have been widely applied to education, medicine, and the social sciences. Much of meta-analytic data are hierarchically structured since effect size estimates are nested within studies, and in turn studies can be nested within level-3 units such as laboratories or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296366
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Some challenges in the empirics of the effects of networks
Boucher, Vincent; Fortin, Bernard - 2015
We study some recent developments and challenges in the empirics of the effects of social networks. We focus in particular on researchers' ability to make policy recommendations based on a standard linear econometric model. We examine the potential compatibility between this type of econometric...
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