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Prioritarian Poverty Comparisons with Cardinal and Ordinal Attributes
Author(s) -
Bosmans Kristof,
Lauwers Luc,
Ooghe Erwin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the scandinavian journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.725
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1467-9442
pISSN - 0347-0520
DOI - 10.1111/sjoe.12238
Subject(s) - operationalization , axiom , poverty , class (philosophy) , mathematical economics , mathematics , bundle , econometrics , economics , computer science , artificial intelligence , epistemology , economic growth , philosophy , geometry , materials science , composite material
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.