Improvement indices of well-being

✍ Scribed by Kai-yuen Tsui

• Book ID: 104652956
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 791 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0176-1714
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00179233

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, various classes of indices measuring the improvement of well-being have been suggested. Formally, an improvement index is a function Q* (xl, x2), where xt is the level of some attribute of well-being, e.g., life expectancy, in period t. This paper extends previous works on improvement indices by introducing a class of multidimensional indices which aggregates the improvement of a group of attributes of well-being. We propose a set of axioms which leads inexorably to a multidimensional generalization of Kakwani's class of improvement indices of well-being (Kakwani 1993).