A characterization of the Gini segregation index

Carmen Puerta () and Ana Urrutia ()
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Carmen Puerta: Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU
Ana Urrutia: Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU

Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, vol. 47, issue 3, No 3, 519-529

Abstract: Abstract This paper gives an axiomatic characterization of the Gini index of segregation. We use some standard axioms along with an independence axiom that is related to the dual independence axiom of Yaari’s dual theory of choice under risk.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s00355-016-0980-1

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