We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …

-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of … deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation quasi-ordering obeys a weaker version of the principle of transfers: welfare … individuals and allocated to one arbitrary poorer individual. We identify the subclass of extended Gini social welfare functions …

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of … regional national accounts income to regional survey income, which is closely related to the elasticity of underreporting with … respect to income. We find this elasticity to be substantial but roughly constant over time, implying a large but relatively …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …