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On Fair Allocations and Indivisibilities

Sun, Ning; Yang, Zaifu - 2003

, respectively. Welfare properties are also analyzed when the total amount of money is modeled as a continuous variable. Our proof is …

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Perfectly Fair Allocations with Indivisibilities

Sun, Ning; Yang, Zaifu - 2003

One set of n objects of type I, another set of n objects of type II, and an amount M of money is to be completely allocated among n agents in such a way that each agent gets one object of each type with some amount of money. We propose a new solution concept to this problem called a perfectly...

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Intergenerational Equity and the Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit Analysis

Mertens, Jean-Francois; Rubinchik, Anna - 2006

social welfare function with respect to perturbations in individual endowments (which induce perturbations of equilibria) in …

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Are University Admissions Academically Fair?

Bhattacharya, Debopam; Kanaya, Shin; Stevens, Margaret - 2016

High-profile universities often face public criticism for undermining academic merit and promoting social elitism or engineering through their admissions-process. Popular statistical tests for detecting such biases, based on the significance of socioeconomic characteristics on admission...

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Towards a critique of the concepts of solidarity and discrimination as applied in inter-temporal analyses of the so-called global problems

Klaus, Václav; Tříska, Dušan - In: Politická ekonomie 2007 (2007) 6, pp. 723-750

of a welfare function - its intra and inter-temporal application. 2) A generalized concept of a distance (measured in … concepts of solidarity, justice and discrimination is accepted, as well as the resultant transfers of wealth from the richer Ra …

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Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2010

A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...

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Is Fairness in the Eye of the Beholder? An Impartial Spectator Analysis of Justice

Konow, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

. This study, on the other hand, seeks to establish evidence on unbiased justice and to propose and demonstrate a general … approach for measuring impartial views empirically. Most normative justice theories associate impartiality with limited … between consensus and impartiality, this paper seeks to help lay an empirical foundation for welfare analysis, social choice …

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Policy Evaluation, welfare weights and value judgements: a Reminder

Creedy, John - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper is concerned with the use of social welfare functions in evaluating changes. In particular, it considers … suggestions that welfare weights to be used in comparing the gains and losses of different individuals (or other appropriate units …

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Chapter Twenty-Four. Freedom, Opportunity, and Well-Being

Foster, James E. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 687-728). 2011

This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom , or the extent to which a set of options offers a decision maker real opportunities to achieve. Three cases are investigated: no preferences, a single preference, and plural preferences. The three corresponding...

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Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing

Foster, James E. - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2010

This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom, or the extent to which a set of options offers a decision maker real opportunities to achieve. Three cases are investigated: no preferences, a single preference, and plural preferences. The three co the cardinality...

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