Details about Satya R. Chakravarty

Homepage:	http://www.isical.ac.in
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Workplace:	Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2020

1. A Paradox for Inequality Indices
   Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
2. New Perspectives on the Gini and Bonferroni Indices of Inequality
   Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

2019

3. Measuring electoral competitiveness: A Probability ratio index
   Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India
4. Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory and Applications
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2019)
5. The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
   Also in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2019) View citations (1)
   DELTA Working Papers, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure) (1998) View citations (14)
   See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2003)

2017

6. Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered
   Working Papers, Tulane University, Department of Economics
   See also Chapter (2020)

2016

7. A Poverty Line Contingent on Reference Groups: Implications for the Extent of Poverty in some Asian Countries
   ADBI Working Papers, Asian Development Bank Institute
   See also Chapter (2016)
8. Measuring the Impact of Vulnerability on the Number of Poor: A New Methodology with Empirical Illustrations
   ADBI Working Papers, Asian Development Bank Institute
   See also Chapter (2016)

2015

9. Reference groups and the poverty line: An axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (2)
   See also Chapter (2016)

2014

10. Measuring Chronic Multidimensional Poverty: A Counting Approach
    OPHI Working Papers, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford View citations (14)
11. New contest success functions
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality View citations (5)

2013

12. On a family of achievement and shortfall inequality indices
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
    See also Journal Article in Health Economics (2016)

2012

13. Intertemporal Material Deprivation
    Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ View citations (2)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2012) View citations (4)

2010

14. Measuring Financial Inclusion: An Axiomatic Approach
    Microeconomics Working Papers, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research View citations (16)
    Also in Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India (2010) View citations (17)
15. Poverty and Time
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ (2008) View citations (4)
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (2008) View citations (7)
    Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2008) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2012)

2009

16. A Note on the Carreras-Coleman Decisiveness Index
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in International Game Theory Review (IGTR) (2009)
17. A study on the RQ index of ethnic polarization
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
18. Arguments for a Better World - Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
    Post-Print, HAL
    Also in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2009)
19. Measuring polarization by reduced-form indices
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
20. Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation
    Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques View citations (25)
    Also in Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (2009) View citations (17)
    Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ (2009) View citations (17)
21. Social Exclusion Orderings
    Working Papers, University of Verona, Department of Economics View citations (2)

2007

22. A Characterization and Some Properties of the Banzhaf-Coleman-Dubey-Shapley Sensitivity Index
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Games and Economic Behavior (2004)
23. A New Characterization of the Banzhaf Index of Power
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in International Game Theory Review (IGTR) (2005)
24. Measuring Power in Weighted Majority Games
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2005

25. Intersociety Literacy Comparisons
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2003

26. Individual welfare, social deprivation and income taxation
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article in Economic Theory (2003)
27. Target Shortfall Orderings and Indices
    Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research View citations (1)
28. The Measurement of Social Exclusion
    Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2006)

2002

29. Multi-dimensional poverty orderings
    DELTA Working Papers, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure) View citations (9)
30. Population Growth and Poverty Measurement
    Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in Social Choice and Welfare (2006)

1998

31. A Family of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
    DELTA Working Papers, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure) View citations (7)
32. Efficient Horizontal Mergers
    DELTA Working Papers, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (1998)
33. Measures of Deprivation and their Meaning in Terms of Social Satisfaction
    DELTA Working Papers, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Theory and Decision (1999)

Journal Articles

2020

1. On the probability ratio index as a measure of electoral competition
   Palgrave Communications, 2020, 6, (1), 1-6

2019

2. Inequality and welfare: Some axiomatic characterizations
   International Journal of Economic Theory, 2019, 15, (2), 153-168
3. Pro‐Poorness Orderings
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65, (4), 785-803

2017

4. Measuring chronic multidimensional poverty
   Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, 39, (6), 983-1006 View citations (6)

2016

5. On a Family of Achievement and Shortfall Inequality Indices
   Health Economics, 2016, 25, (12), 1503-1513
   See also Working Paper (2013)

2015

6. Generalized Gini polarization indices for an ordinal dimension of human well-being
   International Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 11, (2), 231-246 View citations (3)
7. Vulnerability Orderings for Expected Poverty Indices
   The Japanese Economic Review, 2015, 66, (3), 300-310 View citations (2)

2014

8. Richness orderings
   The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12, (1), 5-22 View citations (4)

2013

9. An axiomatic approach to the measurement of poverty reduction failure
   Economic Modelling, 2013, 35, (C), 874-880 View citations (2)
10. Financial inclusion in India: An axiomatic approach
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 2013, 35, (5), 813-837 View citations (21)
11. Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation with Discrete Data
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, (1), 29-43 View citations (60)

2012

12. Ethnic polarization orderings and indices
    Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2012, 7, (1), 99-123 View citations (4)
13. Poverty and time
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10, (2), 145-162 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
14. Stochastic dominance relations for integer variables
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147, (4), 1331-1341 View citations (19)

2011

15. A reconsideration of the tradeoffs in the new human development index
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (3), 471-474 View citations (9)
16. Measuring ethnic polarization
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2011, 37, (3), 431-452 View citations (1)

2010

17. POLARIZATION ORDERINGS OF INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56, (1), 47-64 View citations (21)

2009

18. A NOTE ON THE CARRERAS-COLEMAN DECISIVENESS INDEX
    International Game Theory Review (IGTR), 2009, 11, (02), 237-245
    See also Working Paper (2009)
19. DEPRIVATION, INEQUALITY AND WELFARE*
    The Japanese Economic Review, 2009, 60, (2), 172-190
20. Equity and efficiency as components of a social welfare function
    International Journal of Economic Theory, 2009, 5, (2), 181-199 View citations (1)
21. Minimal-axiom characterizations of the Coleman and Banzhaf indices of voting power
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2009, 58, (3), 367-375 View citations (1)
22. The subgroup decomposable intermediate indices of inequality
    Spanish Economic Review, 2009, 11, (2), 83-97 View citations (21)

2008

23. Millennium Development Goals: Measuring Progress towards their Achievement
    Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2008, 9, (1), 109-129 View citations (3)
24. On the Watts Multidimensional Poverty Index and its Decomposition
    World Development, 2008, 36, (6), 1067-1077 View citations (30)

2007

25. A TREATMENT OF ABSOLUTE INDICES OF POLARIZATION*
    The Japanese Economic Review, 2007, 58, (2), 273-293 View citations (18)
26. A deprivation-based axiomatic characterization of the absolute Bonferroni index of inequality
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007, 5, (3), 339-351 View citations (21)
27. A generalized index of employment segregation
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2007, 53, (2), 185-195 View citations (21)

2006

28. On the Coleman indices of voting power
    European Journal of Operational Research, 2006, 171, (1), 273-289 View citations (1)
29. Population growth and poverty measurement
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 26, (3), 471-483 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper (2002)
30. THE MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 52, (3), 377-398 View citations (99)
    See also Working Paper (2003)

2005

31. A NEW CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BANZHAF INDEX OF POWER
    International Game Theory Review (IGTR), 2005, 07, (04), 545-553 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper (2007)
32. Measuring Human Poverty: A Generalized Index and an Application Using Basic Dimensions of Life and Some Anthropometric Indicators
    Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2005, 6, (3), 275-299 View citations (12)

2004

33. A characterization and some properties of the Banzhaf-Coleman-Dubey-Shapley sensitivity index
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2004, 49, (1), 31-48 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper (2007)
34. Welfare indicators: a review and new perspectives. 2. Measurement of poverty
    Metron - International Journal of Statistics, 2004, LXII, (2), 247-281 View citations (19)

2003

35. A Generalized Human Development Index
    Review of Development Economics, 2003, 7, (1), 99-114 View citations (50)
36. Individual welfare, social deprivation and income taxation
    Economic Theory, 2003, 21, (4), 843-869 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
37. The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003, 1, (1), 25-49 View citations (503)
    See also Working Paper (2019)
38. Welfare indicators: A review and new perspectives. 1. Measurement of inequality
    Metron - International Journal of Statistics, 2003, LXI, (3), 457-497 View citations (10)

2001

39. Inequality, Polarisation and Welfare: Theory and Applications
    Australian Economic Papers, 2001, 40, (1), 1-13 View citations (58)
40. The Variance as a subgroup decomposable measure of inequality
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2001, 53, (1), 79-95 View citations (20)
41. Why Measuring Inequality by the Variance Makes Sense from a Theoretical Point of View
    Journal of Income Distribution, 2001, 10, (3-4), 6-6 View citations (1)

1999

42. Measures of Deprivation and their Meaning in Terms of Social Satisfaction
    Theory and Decision, 1999, 47, (1), 89-100 View citations (15)
    See also Working Paper (1998)
43. Ranking Income Distributions by Deprivation Orderings
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1999, 46, (2), 125-135 View citations (2)

1998

44. Efficient Horizontal Mergers
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1998, 82, (1), 277-289
    See also Working Paper (1998)
45. Lorenz Domination, Utilitarian Deprivation Rule and Equal Sacrifice Principle
    The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, 1998, 66, (5), 521-31 View citations (3)
46. Optimal subsidy for the poor
    Economics Letters, 1998, 61, (3), 313-319 View citations (13)

1997

47. Income Inequality and Tax Progression
    Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 1997, 38, (1), 93-99
48. On Shorrocks' Reinvestigation of the Sen Poverty Index
    Econometrica, 1997, 65, (5), 1241-1242 View citations (10)

1996

49. Achievement and improvement in living standards
    Journal of Development Economics, 1996, 50, (1), 189-195 View citations (11)
50. Achievement and improvement in living standards—An empirical analysis
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1996, 37, (3), 269-280 View citations (7)

1995

51. A note on the measurement of mobility
    Economics Letters, 1995, 48, (1), 33-36 View citations (3)

1990

52. Distribution of Personal Income: Development of a New Model and Its Application to U.S. Income Data
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1990, 5, (2), 189-96 View citations (35)
53. Migration and welfare
    European Journal of Political Economy, 1990, 6, (1), 119-138 View citations (12)

1989

54. The optimum size distribution of firms
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1989, 18, (1), 99-105

1988

55. Extended Gini Indices of Inequality
    International Economic Review, 1988, 29, (1), 147-56 View citations (40)
56. On the separable industry performance evaluation function
    Economics Letters, 1988, 27, (2), 179-182

1987

57. A note on measures of distance between imcome distributions
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1987, 41, (1), 185-188 View citations (20)

1984

58. Normative indices for measuring social mobility
    Economics Letters, 1984, 15, (1-2), 175-180 View citations (15)
59. On indices of relative deprivation
    Economics Letters, 1984, 14, (2-3), 283-287 View citations (23)

1983

60. A new index of poverty
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1983, 6, (3), 307-313 View citations (80)
61. Ethically Flexible Measures of Poverty
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1983, 16, (1), 74-85 View citations (31)

Books

2015

1. A Course on Cooperative Game Theory
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (6)
2. Inequality, Polarization and Conflict
   Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion, and Well-Being, Springer View citations (1)

2013

3. Econophysics of Income and Wealth Distributions
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (66)

2009

4. Inequality, Polarization and Poverty
   Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion, and Well-Being, Springer View citations (13)

Edited books

2019

1. Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance
   Themes in Economics, Springer

Chapters

2020

1. Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered
   A chapter in Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility, 2020, vol. 28, pp 75-96
   See also Working Paper (2017)

2018

2. Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation: theoretical approaches
   Chapter 5 in Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being, 2018, pp 153-170 View citations (1)

2016

3. A poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries
   Chapter 2 in The Asian ‘Poverty Miracle’, 2016, pp 30-50
   See also Working Paper (2016)
4. Measuring the impact of vulnerability on the number of poor: a new methodology with empirical illustrations
   Chapter 4 in The Asian ‘Poverty Miracle’, 2016, pp 84-117
   See also Working Paper (2016)
5. Reference Groups and the Poverty Line: An Axiomatic Approach with an Empirical Illustration
   A chapter in Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting, 2016, vol. 24, pp 1-27
   See also Working Paper (2015)