Decoster, André; Ooghe, Erwin - In: Inequality, welfare and poverty : theory and measurement, (pp. 173-190). 2003
To take into account heterogeneity in a social welfare function, Ebert (1997) and Shorrocks (1995) show that the only consistent way of welfare measurement consists of either constructing an artificial distribution in which each household is weighted by the number of equivalent individuals, or...