2 papers
econ.GN2026
What is the public's social welfare function?
Richard Layard, Ekaterina Oparina
Optimal public policy requires a social welfare function defined over individual utilities. While there is substantial research on income-based social welfare functions, no publish…
econ.EM2019
Robust Ranking of Happiness Outcomes: A Median Regression Perspective
Le-Yu Chen, Ekaterina Oparina, Nattavudh Powdthavee +1
Ordered probit and logit models have been frequently used to estimate the mean ranking of happiness outcomes (and other ordinal data) across groups. However, it has been recently h…