Prioritarian Poverty Comparisons with Cardinal and Ordinal Attributes

Kristof Bosmans, Luc Lauwers and Erwin Ooghe

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2018, vol. 120, issue 3, 925-942

Abstract: The ethical view of prioritarianism holds that if an extra bundle of attributes is to be allocated to either of two individuals, then priority should be given to the worse off among the two. We consider multidimensional poverty comparisons with cardinal and ordinal attributes and propose three axioms that operationalize the prioritarian view. Each priority axiom, in combination with a handful of standard properties, characterizes a class of poverty measures.

Date: 2018
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