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On the Mean of Squared Deprivation Gaps

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This paper provides an axiomatic characterization of the mean of squared deprivation gaps, which is a distinguished member of the important class of deprivation measures first introduced by Foster et al. (Econometrica 16(1):761–766, 1984) and which has been extensively used in applied work on deprivation.

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  1. Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, 1, Reformatory Street, Calcutta University Alipore Campus, 5th Floor, Kolkata, 700027, India

    Achin Chakraborty

  2. Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA

    Prasanta K. Pattanaik

  3. Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3992, Atlanta, GA, 30302-3992, USA

    Yongsheng Xu

  4. Graduate School of Public Finance and Public Policy, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

    Yongsheng Xu

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We are grateful to Salvador Barberà and Buhong Zheng for helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper.

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Chakraborty, A., Pattanaik, P.K. & Xu, Y. On the Mean of Squared Deprivation Gaps. Economic Theory 34, 181–187 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-006-0128-0

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