Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 28, No. 3 (April 2007), pp. 375-399 (25 pages) This paper clarifies the conceptual distinction of downside inequality aversion (or transfer sensitivity) as a normative ...

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria ...