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Working Papers

2018

1. Talents, preferences and income inequality
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Talents, preferences and income inequality, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (2018) (2018)

2017

2. The Impact of Talents and Preferences on Income Inequality
   Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019), Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA)

2016

3. Inequality of Living Standards and Isoelastic Equivalence Scales
   Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019), Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA) View citations (1)

2011

4. Adaptation and Mitigation in Global Pollution Problems: Economic Impacts of Productivity, Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity
   Working Papers, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Adaptation and Mitigation in Global Pollution Problems: Economic Impacts of Productivity, Sensitivity, and Adaptive Capacity, Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer (2012) View citations (45) (2012)
5. Inequality of Well-Being and Isoelastic Equivalence Scales
   Working Papers, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics View citations (2)
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2011) View citations (2)
6. The redistribution of income when needs differ
   Working Papers, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2010

7. Inequality reducing taxation reconsidered
   Working Papers, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics View citations (4)
8. Talents, Preferences and Inequality of Well-Being
   Working Papers, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics View citations (2)
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2010) View citations (2)
   Post-Print, HAL (2010) View citations (2)
   Post-Print, HAL (2010) View citations (2)
   Post-Print, HAL (2010) View citations (2)
9. The decomposition of inequality reconsidered: Weakly decomposable measures
   Working Papers, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics View citations (42)
   See also Journal Article The decomposition of inequality reconsidered: Weakly decomposable measures, Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier (2010) View citations (36) (2010)

2009

10. Abilities, preferences and well-being
    Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2009)
11. Household decision and equivalence scales
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (9)
    Also in IDEP Working Papers, Institut d'economie publique (IDEP), Marseille, France (2004) View citations (2)
    Post-Print, HAL (2004)
    See also Journal Article Household decisions and equivalence scales, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (2009) View citations (18) (2009)
12. Inequality of individual well-being, tastes and talents
    Post-Print, HAL
    Also in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2009)

2008

13. Equity-regarding poverty measures: Differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales
    LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
    See also Journal Article Equity-regarding poverty measures: differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association (2010) View citations (3) (2010)

2007

14. Income taxation with labour responses
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)
    Also in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2006)
    Post-Print, HAL (2006)
    See also Journal Article Income Taxation with Labor Responses, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory (2007) View citations (4) (2007)

2006

15. Inequality and Envy
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2006)
    See also Chapter Inequality and envy, Research on Economic Inequality, Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2008) (2008)

2004

16. The Social Evaluation of Income Distribution: An Assessment Based on Happiness Surveys
    LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg View citations (1)

2003

17. Equivalence scales reconsidered
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (47)
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2002) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Equivalence Scales Reconsidered, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2003) View citations (47) (2003)
18. Proportional Income Taxation and Effective Progressivity
    IDEP Working Papers, Institut d'economie publique (IDEP), Marseille, France
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2003)
19. The difficulty of income redistribution with labour supply
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article The Difficulty of Income Redistribution with Labour Supply, Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon (2003) View citations (2) (2003)

2002

20. A simple axiomatization of the Foster, Greer, and Thornbecke poverty orderings
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article A Simple Axiomatization of the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Poverty Orderings, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory (2002) View citations (14) (2002)
21. Can a statutory neutral tax schedule lead to effective progressivity ?
    Post-Print, HAL
22. Complaints and Inequality
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations (1)
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2002) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Complaints and inequality, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (2004) View citations (26) (2004)
23. The representative income of the poor as a measure of poverty: A simple axiomatization of the Foster, Greer, and Thornbecke poverty orderings
    Post-Print, HAL
24. Welfare, inequality and the transformation of incomes. The case of weighted income distributions
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article Welfare, inequality and the transformation of incomes the case of weighted income distributions, Journal of Economics, Springer (2002) View citations (11) (2002)

2000

25. Adjusting Incomes for Needs: Can One Avoid Equivalence Scales?
    Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society View citations (6)

1997

26. Linear Inequality Concepts and Social Welfare
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations (1)
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (1997) View citations (1)

Undated

27. Horizontal Equity and Progession when Equivalence Scales are not Constant
    Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, University of York View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Horizontal Equity and Progression When Equivalence Scales Are Not Constant, Public Finance Review (2004) View citations (14) (2004)

Journal Articles

2018

1. Talents, preferences and income inequality
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 51, (1), 13-50
   See also Working Paper Talents, preferences and income inequality, Post-Print (2018) View citations (1) (2018)

2017

2. Inequality and isoelastic equivalence scales: restrictions and implications
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 48, (2), 295-326 View citations (1)

2013

3. The relationship between individual and household measures of WTP and WTA
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 40, (2), 367-390 View citations (4)

2012

4. Adaptation and Mitigation in Global Pollution Problems: Economic Impacts of Productivity, Sensitivity, and Adaptive Capacity
   Environmental & Resource Economics, 2012, 52, (1), 49-64 View citations (45)
   See also Working Paper Adaptation and Mitigation in Global Pollution Problems: Economic Impacts of Productivity, Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity, Working Papers (2011) View citations (8) (2011)

2011

5. Optimal environmental taxes and standards: Implications of the materials balance
   Ecological Economics, 2011, 70, (12), 2454-2460 View citations (1)
6. Optimal response functions in global pollution problems can be upward-sloping: accounting for adaptation
   Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2011, 13, (2), 129-138 View citations (11)

2010

7. Dominance criteria for welfare comparisons: using equivalent income to describe differences in needs
   Theory and Decision, 2010, 69, (1), 55-67 View citations (7)
8. Equity-regarding poverty measures: differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales
   Canadian Journal of Economics, 2010, 43, (1), 301-322 View citations (3)
   Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43, (1), 301-322 (2010)
   See also Working Paper Equity-regarding poverty measures: Differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales, LIS Working papers (2008) (2008)
9. Household willingness to pay and income pooling: A comment
   Economics Letters, 2010, 107, (1), 7-9 View citations (2)
10. On the Measurement of Welfare for Market and Nonmarket Goods: A Numerical Approach
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, 92, (1), 102-109
11. The decomposition of inequality reconsidered: Weakly decomposable measures
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2010, 60, (2), 94-103 View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper The decomposition of inequality reconsidered: Weakly decomposable measures, Working Papers (2010) View citations (42) (2010)

2009

12. HOW DO EUROPEANS EVALUATE INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS? AN ASSESSMENT BASED ON HAPPINESS SURVEYS
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, (3), 803-819 View citations (19)
13. Household decisions and equivalence scales
    Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22, (4), 1039-1062 View citations (18)
    See also Working Paper Household decision and equivalence scales, Post-Print (2009) View citations (9) (2009)
14. On the definition of nonessentiality
    Economics Bulletin, 2009, 29, (3), 2045-2049
15. Taking empirical studies seriously: the principle of concentration and the measurement of welfare and inequality
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 32, (4), 555-574 View citations (7)

2008

16. Approximating WTP and WTA for environmental goods from marginal willingness to pay functions
    Ecological Economics, 2008, 66, (2-3), 270-274 View citations (2)
17. Living Standard, Social Welfare, and the Redistribution of Income in a Heterogeneous Population
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2008, 10, (5), 873-889 View citations (6)

2007

18. Distribution-neutral provision of public goods
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2007, 29, (1), 107-124 View citations (2)
19. Environmental Emissions and Production Economics: Implications of the Materials Balance
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (2), 287-293 View citations (24)
20. Ethical inequality measures and the redistribution of income when needs differ
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007, 5, (3), 263-278 View citations (7)
21. Income Taxation with Labor Responses
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9, (4), 653-682 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Income taxation with labour responses, Post-Print (2007) View citations (2) (2007)
22. Redistributional Preference in Environmental Policy
    FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 2007, 63, (4), 548-562
23. Revealed preference and household production
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2007, 53, (2), 276-289 View citations (10)

2006

24. Budget Incidence Reconsidered
    Journal of Economics, 2006, 88, (1), 1-19 View citations (3)
25. Extending the cost function: A simple method of modeling environmental regulation
    Economics Bulletin, 2006, 17, (6), 1-6

2005

26. Measures of downside risk
    Economics Bulletin, 2005, 4, (16), 1-9 View citations (6)
27. Optimal Anti‐Poverty Programmes: Horizontal Equity and the Paradox of Targeting
    Economica, 2005, 72, (287), 453-468 View citations (2)

2004

28. Coherent inequality views: linear invariant measures reconsidered
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2004, 47, (1), 1-20 View citations (9)
29. Complaints and inequality
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2004, 23, (1), 71-89 View citations (26)
    See also Working Paper Complaints and Inequality, STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers (2002) View citations (1) (2002)
30. Horizontal Equity and Progression When Equivalence Scales Are Not Constant
    Public Finance Review, 2004, 32, (4), 426-440 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper Horizontal Equity and Progession when Equivalence Scales are not Constant, Discussion Papers View citations (4)
31. Meaningful environmental indices: a social choice approach
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2004, 47, (2), 270-283 View citations (151)
32. Social welfare, inequality, and poverty when needs differ
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2004, 23, (3), 415-448 View citations (18)

2003

33. Environmental Goods and the Distribution of Income
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2003, 25, (4), 435-459 View citations (53)
34. Equivalence Scales Reconsidered
    Econometrica, 2003, 71, (1), 319-343 View citations (47)
    See also Working Paper Equivalence scales reconsidered, Post-Print (2003) View citations (47) (2003)
35. The Difficulty of Income Redistribution with Labour Supply
    Economics Bulletin, 2003, 8, (2), 1-9 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper The difficulty of income redistribution with labour supply, Post-Print (2003) View citations (2) (2003)

2002

36. A Simple Axiomatization of the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Poverty Orderings
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2002, 4, (4), 455-473 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper A simple axiomatization of the Foster, Greer, and Thornbecke poverty orderings, Post-Print (2002) View citations (3) (2002)
37. Exogenous Preferences, and Endogenous Tastes / Exogene Präferenzen und endogener Geschmack
    Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2002, 222, (5), 513-530
38. Welfare, inequality and the transformation of incomes the case of weighted income distributions
    Journal of Economics, 2002, 9, (1), 9-50 View citations (11)
    Also in Journal of Economics, 2002, 77, (1), 9-50 (2002) View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Welfare, inequality and the transformation of incomes. The case of weighted income distributions, Post-Print (2002) View citations (8) (2002)

2001

39. A general approach to the evaluation of nonmarket goods
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2001, 23, (4), 373-388 View citations (5)

2000

40. Consistent Income Tax Structures When Households Are Heterogeneous
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2000, 90, (1), 116-150 View citations (34)
41. Equivalizing Incomes: A Normative Approach
    International Tax and Public Finance, 2000, 7, (6), 619-640 View citations (17)
42. Sequential Generalized Lorenz Dominance and Transfer Principles
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 2000, 52, (2), 113-22 View citations (22)
43. original papers: Altruism, redistribution and social insurance
    Review of Economic Design, 2000, 5, (4), 365-385 View citations (1)

1999

44. Combined Income Taxes and Tax‐Benefit Systems
    The Economic Record, 1999, 75, (4), 397-404 View citations (4)
45. Dual Decomposable Inequality Measures
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1999, 32, (1), 234-246 View citations (7)
46. Using equivalent income of equivalent adults to rank income distributions
    Social Choice and Welfare, 1999, 16, (2), 233-258 View citations (39)

1998

47. Evaluation of Nonmarket Goods: Recovering Unconditional Preferences
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998, 80, (2), 241-254 View citations (28)
48. Pigouvian Taxes Under Imperfect Competition If Consumption Depends on Emissions
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 1998, 12, (4), 507-513 View citations (14)
49. Ramsey Pricing and Environmental Regulation
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 1998, 50, (4), 297-307 View citations (1)
50. Relative standards: A positive and normative analysis
    Journal of Economics, 1998, 67, (1), 17-38 View citations (18)

1997

51. Selecting Preferences for Nonmarket Goods: Possibilities and Limitations
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1997, 52, (3-4), 301-17 View citations (5)

1996

52. Income inequality and differences in household size
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1996, 31, (1), 57-58 View citations (5)
    Also in Mathematical Social Sciences, 1995, 30, (1), 37-55 (1995) View citations (20)

1995

53. Consumer's Surplus: Simple Solutions to an Old Problem
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 1995, 47, (4), 285-94 View citations (4)
54. On measurability and comparability: Comment on Pauwels's “the implicit welfare weights used when maximizing aggregate surplus”
    Journal of Economics, 1995, 61, (3), 317-328

1992

55. A reexamination of the optimal nonlinear income tax
    Journal of Public Economics, 1992, 49, (1), 47-73 View citations (123)
56. Global Tax Progressivity
    Public Finance Review, 1992, 20, (1), 77-92 View citations (5)

1988

57. A Family of Aggregative Compromise Inequality Measures
    International Economic Review, 1988, 29, (2), 363-76 View citations (9)

1987

58. Axiomatic foundations of Hicksian measures of welfare change
    Journal of Public Economics, 1987, 33, (1), 115-124 View citations (1)
59. Size and distribution of incomes as determinants of social welfare
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1987, 41, (1), 23-33 View citations (60)

1986

60. Equity and distribution in cost-benefit analysis
    Journal of Economics, 1986, 5, (1), 67-78 View citations (2)
    Also in Journal of Economics, 1986, 46, (1), 67-78 (1986) View citations (2)

1985

61. Non-transitive representations of transitive orderings
    Economics Letters, 1985, 18, (2-3), 109-112 View citations (3)

1984

62. Measures of distance between income distributions
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1984, 32, (2), 266-274 View citations (35)

Chapters

2010

1. Chapter 6 Inequality reducing taxation reconsidered
   A chapter in Studies in Applied Welfare Analysis: Papers from the Third ECINEQ Meeting, 2010, pp 131-152

2008

2. Inequality and envy
   A chapter in Inequality and Opportunity: Papers from the Second ECINEQ Society Meeting, 2008, pp 37-47
   See also Working Paper Inequality and Envy, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE (2006) (2006)

2007

3. How Progressive is Progressive Taxation? An Axiomatic Analysis
   A chapter in Equity, 2007, pp 57-71

1999

4. Relative standards as strategic instruments in open economies
   Chapter 11 in Environmental Regulation and Market Power, 1999, pp 210-232