Hammond Transfers and Ordinal Inequality Measurement

Tom Gargani ()
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No 2509, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: This article establishes a direct proof of the equivalence between two incomplete rankings of distributions of an ordinal attribute. The first ranking is the possibility of going from one distribution to another by a finite sequence of Hammond transfers. The second ranking is the intersection of two dominance criteria introduced by Gravel et al.(Economic Theory, 71 (2021), 33-80). The proof constructs an algorithm that provides a series of Hammond transfers, between any two distributions related by the intersection of the two dominances.

Keywords: Hammond Transfers; Inequality; Algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D3 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2025-05
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