Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75524 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 343
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We decompose the generalized Lorenz order into a size and a distribution component. The former is represented by stochastic dominance, the latter by the standard Lorenz order. We show that it is always possible, given generalized Lorenz dominance between two distributions F and G, to find distributions H1 and H2 such that F stochastically dominates H1 and H1 Lorenz-dominates G, and such that F Lorenz-dominates H2 and H2 stochastically dominates G. We also show that generalized Lorenz dominance is characterized by this property and discuss the implications of these results for choice under risk.
Subjects: 
Income distribution
welfare dominance
Lorenz order
stochastic dominance
decisions under risk
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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