An Atkinson-Gini Family of Social Evaluation Functions

Araar Abdelkrim () and Jean-Yves Duclos ()

Cahiers de recherche from Université Laval - Département d'économique

Abstract:

We propose a class of social evaluation functions and of inequality indices which merge the useful features of the family of Atkinson (1970) and of S-Gini (Donaldson and Weymark (1980, 1983), Yitzhaki (1983) and Kakwani (1980)) indices. These social evaluation functions can be interpreted as average utility corrected for relative deprivation in individual welfare. They can also be understood as averages of altruistic welfare in the population, and have a simple and useful graphical interpretation.

Keywords: Social evaluation functions; Inequality indices; Relative deprivation; Altruism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 1998

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Working Paper: An Atkinson-Gini Family of Social Evaluation Functions (2001)
Journal Article: An Atkinson-Gini family of social evaluation functions (2003)
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