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Estimating the Amartya Sen’s Social Welfare Function for Latin America

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dc.creator Riveros Gavilanes, John Michael
dc.date 2021-07-01
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dc.identifier https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ede/article/view/88235
dc.identifier 10.15446/ede.v31n59.88235
dc.identifier.uri http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/109766
dc.description This article carries out a series of empiric approximations of the theoretical formula for Sen’s (1974) social welfare function, applied to the Latin American context between 1985 and 2018 to establish social welfare tendencies in the period analyzed. The estimates involve Sen’s original formula and its generalized version proposed by Mukhopadhaya (2003a; 2003b). The article contributes – likewise- to the exploration of the long-term relations between welfare, inequality and income through a co-integration analysis of panel data. The results point to the existence of long-term relationships between these variables, a slightly greater elasticity for social welfare when based on income distribution than when based on economic growth, while in the short-term social welfare is only explained through the latter. Finally, positioning for Latin American countries is established through their levels of social welfare. Forecasts made with the proposed econometric model coincide – in terms of behavior and comparative social welfare position among the countries listed – with the estimate from the original Sen approach applied to Latin America. en-US
dc.description El presente artículo realiza una serie de aproximaciones empíricas sobre la formulación teórica de la función de bienestar social de Sen (1974), aplicadas al contexto latinoamericano entre 1995 y 2018, para establecer las tendencias de bienestar social en el periodo de análisis. Las estimaciones involucran la formulación original de Sen y su versión generalizada propuesta por Mukhopadhaya (2003a; 2003b). El artículo contribuye —igualmente— a la exploración de las relaciones de largo plazo entre el bienestar, la desigualdad y el ingreso a través del análisis de cointegración de datos de panel. Los resultados indican la existencia de relaciones de largo plazo entre estas variables, una elasticidad ligeramente mayor sobre el bienestar desde la distribución del ingreso que desde el crecimiento económico, mientras que en el corto plazo el bienestar solamente es explicado a través de este último. Finalmente, para los países latinoamericanos se establece su posicionamiento a partir de los niveles de bienestar. Las predicciones del modelo econométrico planteado coinciden —en términos de comportamiento y posición comparativa del bienestar social entre países en relación— con la estimación del planteamiento original de Sen aplicado a América Latina. es-ES
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dc.publisher Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín - Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Económicas - Departamento de Economía es-ES
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dc.rights Derechos de autor 2021 Ensayos de Economía es-ES
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 es-ES
dc.source Ensayos de Economía; Vol. 31 No. 59 (2021): julio-diciembre 2021; 13-40 en-US
dc.source Ensayos de Economía; Vol. 31 Núm. 59 (2021): julio-diciembre 2021; 13-40 es-ES
dc.source Ensayos de Economía; Vol. 31 No. 59 (2021): julio-diciembre 2021; 13-40 fr-CA
dc.source 2619-6573
dc.source 0121-117X
dc.subject Welfare en-US
dc.subject Inequality en-US
dc.subject Growth en-US
dc.subject Income en-US
dc.subject Latin America. en-US
dc.subject Economics en-US
dc.subject Welfare Studies en-US
dc.subject Latin American en-US
dc.subject Bienestar es-ES
dc.subject Desigualdad es-ES
dc.subject Crecimiento es-ES
dc.subject Ingreso es-ES
dc.subject América Latina es-ES
dc.subject Economía es-ES
dc.subject Estudios del Bienestar es-ES
dc.subject America Latina es-ES
dc.title Estimating the Amartya Sen’s Social Welfare Function for Latin America en-US
dc.title Estimación de la función de bienestar social de Amartya Sen para América Latina es-ES
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dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type Regresión Multiple de Panel de Datos es-ES
dc.type Panel Data Regression en-US


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