On comparing heterogeneous populations:
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Bart Capรฉau; Erwin Ooghe
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The standard solution in classical welfare analysis to deal with non-pecuniary characteristics relevant for a normative judgement of income distributions, such as household composition or handicaps, is to adjust first household income via equivalence scales. The resulting equivalent income is then a