Research Seminar MicroeconomicsIndividual and Social Deprivation when Choices MatterPaolo Piacquadio (University of Oslo)
31 January 2019
The Microeconomics Research Seminar welcomes Paolo Piacquadio (Univercity of Oslo), who will present his work on
"Individual and Social Deprivation when Choices Matter".
Place: Room 250, Allende-Platz 1
Hour: 17:15 - 18:45
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Abstract
Choices are fundamental in explaining differences in the attainments of individuals. This paper addresses the challenge of measuring individual and social deprivation, when keeping individuals responsible for their choices. I show that intuitive principles of distributive justice force social deprivation to be measured by the sum of specific indices of individual deprivation which: (i) respect the preferences of individuals; (ii) compare individuals based on the set of attainments they are deprived of; and (iii) are continuous and convex. Furthermore, I extend the characterization results to differences in needs and categorical dimensions of deprivation and illustrate the criteria using the Norwegian register data.