Benefit). By merging these two benefits, the government gives up the logic of specific policy for low-income single parents …

criticism that this is a partial and ill-founded measure of social welfare (Sen). Alternative measures abound, such as the Index … performance, arbitrarily weighted. We suggest reliance on a basic notion of welfare economics, namely, compensating variations … developments in social choice theory, so that our work is closely tied to a theoretically sound notion of social welfare. …