The Measurement of Diversity

Walter Bossert (), P.K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu ()

Cahiers de recherche from Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ

Abstract: The notion of diversity is an issue that is of relevance in several contexts. This paper provides an axiomatic approach to the measurement of diversity. We characterize two nested classes of ordinal measures of diversity and an important member of these classes.

Keywords: DIVERSITY; MEASURES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 D70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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