5 papers
Diversity as Majorization
Federico Echenique, Teddy Mekonnen, M. Bumin Yenmez
How should institutions compare group diversity, and which group should they select when they value diversity and merit? We take a target-based approach that evaluates the entire g…
Utilitarian Social Choice and Distributional Welfare Analysis
Federico Echenique, Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey
Harsanyi (1955) showed that the only way to aggregate individual preferences into a social preference which satisfies certain desirable properties is ``utilitarianism'', whereby th…
Endogenous Inequality Aversion: Decision criteria for triage and other ethical tradeoffs
Federico Echenique, Teddy Mekonnen, M. Bumin Yenmez
Medical ``Crisis Standards of Care'' call for a utilitarian allocation of scarce resources in public emergencies, whereas standards of care under normal conditions place relatively…
Distributional Preferences for Market Design
Federico Echenique, Teddy Mekonnen, M. Bumin Yenmez
Institutions selecting students, employees, or members value both about who is selected and the resulting group's composition. We study ``distributional'' preferences over group co…
Swap Bounded Envy
Federico Echenique, Sumit Goel, SangMok Lee
We study fairness in the allocation of discrete goods. Exactly fair (envy-free) allocations are impossible, so we discuss notions of approximate fairness. In particular, we focus o…