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Fair social orderings with other-regarding preferences

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Decerf, Benoit [UCL] Van der Linden, Martin

We study the construction of social ordering functions in a multidimensional allocation problem where agents have heterogeneous other-regarding preferences (ORP). We show that there exists leximin social ordering functions satisfying equality and efficiency principles. When equality is defined as equality of resources, and ORP are only taken into account by efficiency principles, some of these social ordering functions are independent of the other-regarding part of preferences. When ORP are also taken into account by equality principles, results depend on the degree of resourcism of the social planner. If the planner still worries about equality of resources, some of the social ordering functions satisfying equality and efficiency remain independent of ORP. If the planner departs from a resourcist notion of equality, then social-ordering functions satisfying equality and efficiency must use information on the other-regarding part of preferences

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2015
Language Anglais
Journal information "Social Choice and Welfare" - Vol. 46, no.3, p. 655-694 (2015)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Springer (Heidelberg)
issn 0176-1714
e-issn 1432-217X
Publication status Accepté/Sous presse
Affiliation UCL - SSH/LIDAM/CORE - Center for operations research and econometrics
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Bibliographic reference Decerf, Benoit ; Van der Linden, Martin. Fair social orderings with other-regarding preferences. In: Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 46, no.3, p. 655-694 (2015)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/173096