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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...

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Additive-Belief-Based Preferences

Dillenberger, David; Raymond, Collin - 2020

We introduce a new class of preferences — which we call additive-belief-based (ABB) —that captures a general and yet tractable approach to belief-based utility, and that encompasses many popular models in the behavioral literature. We show that the general class of ABB preferences and two...

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Chapter Twenty-One. Fair Allocation Rules

Thomson, William - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 393-506). 2011

We review the theory of fairness as it pertains to concretely specified problems of resource allocations. We present punctual notions designed to evaluate how well individuals, or groups, are treated in relation to one another: no-envy, egalitarian-equivalence, individual and collective lower or...

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Why praise inequality? : public good provision, income distribution and social welfare

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....

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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011

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Violent conflict exposure in Nigeria and economic welfare

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2019

Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and … socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within … countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 …

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Conflict exposure and economic welfare in Nigeria

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2019

Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on numerous education, health and … socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from this research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within … countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 …

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Preference aggregation with incomplete information

Chambers, Christopher P.; Hayashi, Takashi - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 82 (2014) 2, pp. 589-599

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Manipulation of social choice functions under incomplete information

Gori, Michele - In: Games and economic behavior 129 (2021), pp. 350-369

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Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? An Extension

Wang, Hao - 2015

It has been found that more competition in medical markets improves social welfare, although consumers demand “too much” medical care ex post due to health insurance. While the finding has important implications in government regulation of health care industries, the related analysis has to...

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