Measuring Social Progress

Koen Decancq and Erik Schokkaert

No 668197, Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven

Abstract: In this chapter, we provide a critical review of the literature on social progress from a prioritarian perspective. We give special attention to the choice of the measure of individual well-being and the aggregation method across individuals in our discussion of various methods that have been proposed in the literature. We present the “growth incidence curve” as a useful device to chart social progress. We illustrate with empirical results for Russia in the period 1995-2005.

Keywords: Social progress; social condition; prioritarian social evaluations; preferences; growth incidence curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51
Date: 2021-01-14
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