Robust international comparisons of distributions of disposable income and regional public goods

Nicolas Gravel (), Patrick Moyes () and Benoît Tarroux

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Abstract: The paper provides robust normative comparisons of 12 OECD countries based on their distributions of disposable income and access to two regional public goods: infant mortality and pupil-teacher ratios at public schools. Comparisons are performed using two and three-dimensional dominance criteria that coincide with the unanimity of utilitarian judgments taken over specific classes of utility functions. The criteria succeed in ranking conclusively about 30% of all possible comparisons in the two-dimensional case, compared with 67% for one-dimensional income-based comparisons and 6% for three-dimensional ones. Introducing local public goods seems to worsen the relative standing of Anglo-Saxon countries.

Keywords: Regional public goods; disposable income; infant mortality; pupil-teacher ratios at public schools; international comparisons; OECD countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-07
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Published in Economica, 2009, 76 (303), pp.432-461. ⟨10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00688.x⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00688.x

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