The implications of equal value of life and prioritarianism for the evaluation of population health∗
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چکیده
We analyze the implications of several principles related to the concept of equal (and prioritarian) entitlement to continued life. These principles, when modeled as axioms for the evaluation of health distributions, and combined with some other structural axioms, provide several characterization results of focal population health evaluation functions. JEL numbers: D63, I10.
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