Fairness and well-being measurement: An intertemporal perspective

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Supervisors

Maniquet, François

Faculty

Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication

Degree label

Master [120] en sciences économiques, orientation générale, à finalité approfondie

Abstract

The present dissertation examines the robustness of two basic results in the theory of fairness to preference domain restrictions in an intertemporal framework. In particular, we show that the two characterisation theorems obtained by Fleurbaey and Maniquet (2017b) for individual well-being measures hold under impatience; a limit case is obtained if stationary preferences are represented by an additively separable utility function. We further prove that social orderings characterised by absolute inequality aversion are robust to the impatience condition but cannot be reproduced under stationarity.