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Workshop LAMETAInequality and social welfare:
preferences, behavior and measurement
Ranking Distributions ofan Ordinal Attribute
Nicolas Gravel (Aix-Marseille Université, AMSE, France)Brice Magdalou (Univ. de Montpellier, LAMETA, France)
Patrick Moyes (Univ. de Bordeaux, GREThA, France)
Montpellier, November 17-18, 2016
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Introduction
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A real demand for new social welfare indicators• « for a better life index » initiative (OECD, 2011) ...
Most of the social welfare dimensions are ordinal attributes• examples: development (access to housing), health (health status, body
mass index, QALY), subjective well-being (life statisfaction, happiness), education (Pisa scores, years of schooling, IQ), ...
Our objective: To propose criteria to rank such distributions• with transparent ethical foundations : efficiency / equity• empirically implementable (ex: Lorenz dominance)• Hardy-Littlewood-Polya theorem (Kolm 1966, Atkinson 1970, ...)
Objective of the paper
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Specificities of ordinal measurement
Very bad Bad So so Good Very good Self-assessedHealth
A scale is a list of ordered categories
Numerical representations of the scale are allowed, but defined up s
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Self-assessedHealth
A scale is a list of ordered categories
Numerical representations of the scale are allowed, but defined up to a strictly increasing transformation
Specificities of ordinal measurement
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Self-assessedHealth
A scale is a list of ordered categories
Numerical representations of the scale are allowed, but defined up to a strictly increasing transformation
Specificities of ordinal measurement
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Self-assessedHealth
A scale is a list of ordered categories
Numerical representations of the scale are allowed, but defined up to a strictly increasing transformation
Specificities of ordinal measurement
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Self-assessedHealth
A scale is a list of ordered categories
Numerical representations of the scale are allowed, but defined up to a strictly increasing transformation
the distance between two categories has no meaning ...
Specificities of ordinal measurement
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How to define « the size of the cake » ?• the ranking of the means of two distributions can be reversed by a
transformation of the (numerical) scale• Mendelson (1987): only the quantiles (ex: median) are invariant to such
transformations• efficiency considerations: captured by the notion of increment
What is the meaning of « inequality reduction » ?• for a cardinal attribute : Pigou-Dalton transfer principle• questionable for an ordinal attribute ... no alternative in the literature
Specificities of ordinal measurement
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Most of the literature : « cardinalization » of the scale
Only few papers recognize the specificities of ordinal measurement
Alison & Foster (J. Health Eco. 2004)• applies to distributions with the same median• single-crossing condition of the CDFs about the median
Abul-Naga & Yalcin (J. Health Eco. 2008)• develop and apply indices consistent with inequality reduction in the
sense of Alison & Foster
Cowell & Flachaire (WP 2014)• definition of individual statuses, invariant to a transfo. of the scale• inequality as distance from a reference point (mean, median, ...)
Literature
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Framework and Definitions
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Notation
n
C = {1, 2, . . . , k}
(ns1, n
s2, . . . , n
sk) ns
j
�kj=1n
sj = n
We consider a population of individuals
A scale is a set of ordered categories
A society s is a list , where is the number of individuals in category j, with
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We consider a transfer principle, due to Peter J. Hammond (Econometrica 1976), for capturing our intuition about meaning of inequality reduction in an ordinal setting
Hammond’s (progressive) transfer : • a transfer from a richer to a poorer individual, without reversing their
positions on the ordinal scale, improves social welfare• contrary to a PD transfer, which is a mean-preserving contraction in
spread, nothing is preserved here
Hammond’s transfers
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Hammond’s transfers
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Only the first example is a PD transfer
Hammond’s transfers
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Social welfare functions
We consider the following large class of social welfare functions :
Normative foundations :• (kind of) utilitarianism: weights interpreted as subjective utilities• non-welfarist justification (Gravel, Marchand, Sen 2011)
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Social welfare functions
We consider the following large class of social welfare functions :
Normative foundations :• (kind of) utilitarianism: weights interpreted as subjective utilities• non-welfarist justification (Gravel, Marchand, Sen 2011)
number of individuals in category j, in society s
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Social welfare functions
We consider the following large class of social welfare functions :
Normative foundations :• (kind of) utilitarianism: weights interpreted as subjective utilities• non-welfarist justification (Gravel, Marchand, Sen 2011)
number of individuals in category j, in society s
weight associated to category j
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Social welfare functions
We consider the following large class of social welfare functions :
Normative foundations :• (kind of) utilitarianism: weights interpreted as subjective utilities• non-welfarist justification (Gravel, Marchand, Sen 2011)
Two particular subclasses will be of importance :
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The implementation criterion is based on the following curve :
This curve is really easy to compute. We have :
Dominance: a society s dominates a society s’ if the H-curve for society s lies nowhere above that of s’
and
The H-curve
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1 2
ns1 ns
2 nsk
3
ns3
The H-curve
k
...
...
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1 2
ns1 ns
2 nsk
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ns3
The H-curve
k
...
...
Lowest category Highest category
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1 2
1 2 3 Category i
ns1 ns
2 nsk
3
ns3
The H-curve
k
...
...
k
H(1; s)
H-curve
ns1
n
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ns1 ns
2 nsk
3
ns3
The H-curve
k
...
...
k
H(1; s)
H-curve
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1 2
1 2 3 Category i
ns1 ns
2 nsk
3
ns3
The H-curve
k
...
...
k
H(1; s)
H(2; s)
H-curve
ns2
n
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1 2
1 2 3 Category i
ns1 ns
2 nsk
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ns3
The H-curve
k
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k
H(1; s)
H(2; s)
H-curve
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1 2
1 2 3 Category i
ns1 ns
2 nsk
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ns3
The H-curve
k
...
...
k
H(1; s)
H(2; s)
H-curve
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1 2
1 2 3 Category i
ns1 ns
2 nsk
3
ns3
The H-curve
k
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k
H(1; s)
H(2; s)
H-curve
ns3
nH(3; s)
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1 2
1 2 3 Category i
ns1 ns
2 nsk
3
ns3
The H-curve
k
...
...
k
H(1; s)
H(2; s)
H-curve
H(3; s)
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Results
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Social welfare: efficiency and equity
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Social welfare: efficiency and equity
transparent definition of efficiency and equity
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Social welfare: efficiency and equity
transparent definition of efficiency and equity
robust ethical foundation for the SWF
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Social welfare: efficiency and equity
transparent definition of efficiency and equity
robust ethical foundation for the SWF
implementation criterion
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Social welfare: efficiency and equity
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Social welfare: efficiency and equity
increasing and « strongly » concave
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Social welfare: efficiency and equity
increasing and « strongly » concave
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Illustration of « strong » concavity
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Illustration of « strong » concavity
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Lowest category Highest category
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Weight �i
�1
�6 = �k
Illustration of « strong » concavity
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Weight �i
�1
Arbitrary values
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Dual theorem: inefficiency and equity
Dual H-curve :
Simple computation from the survival function :
Dual theorem :
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The last, but not the least, objective
Can we isolate equity considerations ?• as compared to the cardinal framework, (in)efficiency cannot be
«neutralised» but letting the means fixed• stochastic dominance strategy : intersection of weak-super-majorization
and weak-sub-majorization
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The last, but not the least, objective
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Empirical Illustration
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Body mass index as health indicator : mass(kg)/square-of-height(m)• obesity and overweight are increasingly recognized as major problems
(both for health and for self-esteem)• so can be « underweight » (anorexia)• often used as a diagnostic tool to identify pathologic weights
Six levels usually defined :
Distributions of body mass index
> 40 : morbid obesity
[35-40] : severe obesity
[30-35[ : mild obesity
[25-30[ : over-weight
[18-25[ : norm
< 18 underweight
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Body mass index as health indicator : mass(kg)/square-of-height(m)• obesity and overweight are increasingly recognized as major problems
(both for health and for self-esteem)• so can be « underweight » (anorexia)• often used as a diagnostic tool to identify pathologic weights
Six levels usually defined :
Distributions of body mass index
> 40 : morbid obesity
[35-40] : severe obesity
[30-35[ : mild obesity
[25-30[ : over-weight
[18-25[ : norm
< 18 underweight
> 40 : morbid obesity
[35-40] : severe obesity
[30-35[ : mild obesity
[25-30[ : over-weight
< 18 : underweight
[18-25[ : norm
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H-Curves for french adult females
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Distributions of body mass index
Data source: survey ESPS (panel since 1998)
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Conclusion
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We have provided a « foundational » theorem, and some extensions, for normative evaluation dealing with distributions of a discrete ordinal attribute
The approach is easily workable : implemention criteria
Need to do :• to develop ordinal inequality indices consistent with Hammond’s
transfers• to make empirical applications (with statistical inference)• multidimensional generalizations ?
Conclusion
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Appendix
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Elementary transformations
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Elementary transformationsefficiency
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Elementary transformationsefficiency
equity
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Inequality of self-reported health status
Data are taken from Abul-Naga & Yalcin (J. Health Eco. 2008) • Swiss Health Survey (SHS), by Switzerland’s Fed. Stat. Office in 2002 • 19.706 observations from 7 satistical areas• 5 categories : very bad, bad, so so, good, very good
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Inequality of self-reported health status
North west
Central
Zurich
East
Léman
Ticino
Middle-land
Middle-land
Central
Zurich
East
Léman
North west Ticino
First-order dominance H-Curve
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In classical social choice theory, Hammond equity principle is tightly connected to the so-called leximin ordering
• Def : a society dominates another society if the poorer individual is strictly better in the first one. If equal situations, comparison of the second poorer individuals, and so on and so forth ...
• Leximin is a complete quasi-ordering
Bosmans & Ooghe (2013): the ony continuous, anonymous, Pareto-sensitive and Hammond-sensitive quasi-ordering is the maximin criterion
The first part of the paper : fixed scale / grid.
We show that dominance according to the H-curve (not a complete quasi-ordering) converges to leximin (complete)
Extension: Refinement of the grid
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Initial scale / grid :
Refinement of the grid :
The H-criterion depends upon the grid. We obtain :
Extension: Refinement of the grid