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- Title
Robust International Comparisons of Distributions of Disposable Income and Regional Public Goods.
- Authors
GRAVEL, NICOLAS; MOYES, PATRICK; TARROUX, BENOÎT
- 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.
- Subjects
OECD countries; INCOME inequality; DISPOSABLE income; PUBLIC goods; INFANT mortality; CLASS size
- Publication
Economica, 2009, Vol 76, Issue 303, p432
- ISSN
0013-0427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00688.x