An inequality measure for stochastic allocations

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1517-1544

  Chew, Soo Hong ^a,b   Sagi, Jacob S ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Income inequality; Other regarding; Preference; Risk; Social welfare; Uncertainty; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862327432     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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