Koen Decancq
Biographic Data
| ID | 338061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koen Decancq |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koen |
| FAMILY NAME | Decancq |
| SIGNATURE | DECANCQ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5822-845X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Glass Half Full? Proportional Rationing and Well-Being in Disability Care
Eliciting Preferences for Well-Being Measurement: A Comparison of Methods
How information about effort and luck shapes altruism of social preferences: A Survey Experiment
This paper introduces a test to compare the levels of altruism of social preferences over the decision maker’s own and another person’s monetary pay-off. We propose a straightforward adaptive bisectional method for eliciting social preferences, applied in an online survey experiment with 573 decision makers. In the experiment, we provided randomized information about the other person’s effort and luck to assess how this information influences the…
Multidimensional poverty measurement with individual preferences
Measuring Successful Aging With Respect for Preferences of Older Persons
The findings highlight the relevance of the degree of importance we attribute to the preferences of older persons in the measurement of successful aging, methodologically as well as empirically
Wellbeing Inequality and Preference Heterogeneity
Standard measures of multidimensional inequality (implicitly) assume common preferences for all individuals, and hence are not sensitive to preference heterogeneity among members of society. In this paper, we measure the inequality of the distribution of equivalent incomes, which is a preference‐sensitive multidimensional wellbeing measure. To quantify the contribution of preference heterogeneity to wellbeing inequality, we use a decomposition me…
Measuring Multidimensional Inequality in the OECD Member Countries with a Distribution-Sensitive Better Life Index
Happiness, Equivalent Incomes and Respect for Individual Preferences
In this paper, we study interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing. We show that using subjective wellbeing (SWB) levels can be in conflict with individuals' judgments about their own lives. We propose therefore an alternative wellbeing measure in terms of equivalent incomes that respects individual preferences. We show how SWB surveys can be used to derive the ordinal information about preferences needed to calculate equivalent incomes. We illustrat…
Beyond GDP: Using Equivalent Incomes to Measure Well-Being in Europe
The Relativity of Decreasing Inequality Between Countries
We study the evolution of population‐weighted between‐country inequality in the period 1980–2009. Whereas previous studies almost exclusively focused on relative inequality measures, we consider relative, absolute and intermediate versions of the Lorenz dominance criterion and of the S‐Gini and generalized entropy classes of inequality measures. The analysis yields robust evidence for increasing absolute inequality. Moreover, this conclusion is p…
Weights in Multidimensional Indices of Wellbeing: An Overview
Multidimensional indices are becoming increasingly important instruments to assess the wellbeing of societies. They move beyond the focus on a single indicator and yet they are easy to present and communicate. A crucial step in the construction of a multidimensional index of wellbeing is the selection of the relative weights for the different dimensions. The aim of this article is to study the role of these weights and to critically survey eight …
Taking Preferences Seriously
Over the years, mainstream economics has slowly drifted away from its philosophic roots. Nowadays, economists–I consider myself one of them–seem to juggle routinely with concepts such as preferences, beliefs, welfare and self-interest without spending much attention on how these concepts should be interpreted in a philosophically sound way. Obviously, this trend is scientifically regrettable and even potentially dangerous. Preference, Value, Choi…
Inequality of Wellbeing: A Multidimensional Approach
An important aspect of multidimensional wellbeing distributions is the correlation between different dimensions. We propose two indices for measuring multidimensional inequality, derived from two underlying social evaluation functions. These functions aggregate both across dimensions and across individuals. The social evaluation functions differ only with respect to the sequencing of aggregation. Aggregating first across dimensions is more attrac…
The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-being
Beyond GDP: Using Equivalent Incomes to Measure Well-Being in Europe
Measuring Multidimensional Inequality in the OECD Member Countries with a Distribution-Sensitive Better Life Index
Inequality of Wellbeing: A Multidimensional Approach
An important aspect of multidimensional wellbeing distributions is the correlation between different dimensions. We propose two indices for measuring multidimensional inequality, derived from two underlying social evaluation functions. These functions aggregate both across dimensions and across individuals. The social evaluation functions differ only with respect to the sequencing of aggregation. Aggregating first across dimensions is more attrac…
Happiness, Equivalent Incomes and Respect for Individual Preferences
In this paper, we study interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing. We show that using subjective wellbeing (SWB) levels can be in conflict with individuals' judgments about their own lives. We propose therefore an alternative wellbeing measure in terms of equivalent incomes that respects individual preferences. We show how SWB surveys can be used to derive the ordinal information about preferences needed to calculate equivalent incomes. We illustrat…
The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-being
Multidimensional poverty measurement with individual preferences
The Relativity of Decreasing Inequality Between Countries
We study the evolution of population‐weighted between‐country inequality in the period 1980–2009. Whereas previous studies almost exclusively focused on relative inequality measures, we consider relative, absolute and intermediate versions of the Lorenz dominance criterion and of the S‐Gini and generalized entropy classes of inequality measures. The analysis yields robust evidence for increasing absolute inequality. Moreover, this conclusion is p…
Wellbeing Inequality and Preference Heterogeneity
Standard measures of multidimensional inequality (implicitly) assume common preferences for all individuals, and hence are not sensitive to preference heterogeneity among members of society. In this paper, we measure the inequality of the distribution of equivalent incomes, which is a preference‐sensitive multidimensional wellbeing measure. To quantify the contribution of preference heterogeneity to wellbeing inequality, we use a decomposition me…
The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-being
Inequality of Wellbeing: A Multidimensional Approach
An important aspect of multidimensional wellbeing distributions is the correlation between different dimensions. We propose two indices for measuring multidimensional inequality, derived from two underlying social evaluation functions. These functions aggregate both across dimensions and across individuals. The social evaluation functions differ only with respect to the sequencing of aggregation. Aggregating first across dimensions is more attrac…
Weights in Multidimensional Indices of Wellbeing: An Overview
Multidimensional indices are becoming increasingly important instruments to assess the wellbeing of societies. They move beyond the focus on a single indicator and yet they are easy to present and communicate. A crucial step in the construction of a multidimensional index of wellbeing is the selection of the relative weights for the different dimensions. The aim of this article is to study the role of these weights and to critically survey eight …
Taking Preferences Seriously
Over the years, mainstream economics has slowly drifted away from its philosophic roots. Nowadays, economists–I consider myself one of them–seem to juggle routinely with concepts such as preferences, beliefs, welfare and self-interest without spending much attention on how these concepts should be interpreted in a philosophically sound way. Obviously, this trend is scientifically regrettable and even potentially dangerous. Preference, Value, Choi…
The Relativity of Decreasing Inequality Between Countries
We study the evolution of population‐weighted between‐country inequality in the period 1980–2009. Whereas previous studies almost exclusively focused on relative inequality measures, we consider relative, absolute and intermediate versions of the Lorenz dominance criterion and of the S‐Gini and generalized entropy classes of inequality measures. The analysis yields robust evidence for increasing absolute inequality. Moreover, this conclusion is p…
Happiness, Equivalent Incomes and Respect for Individual Preferences
In this paper, we study interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing. We show that using subjective wellbeing (SWB) levels can be in conflict with individuals' judgments about their own lives. We propose therefore an alternative wellbeing measure in terms of equivalent incomes that respects individual preferences. We show how SWB surveys can be used to derive the ordinal information about preferences needed to calculate equivalent incomes. We illustrat…
Beyond GDP: Using Equivalent Incomes to Measure Well-Being in Europe
Measuring Multidimensional Inequality in the OECD Member Countries with a Distribution-Sensitive Better Life Index
Measuring Successful Aging With Respect for Preferences of Older Persons
The findings highlight the relevance of the degree of importance we attribute to the preferences of older persons in the measurement of successful aging, methodologically as well as empirically
Wellbeing Inequality and Preference Heterogeneity
Standard measures of multidimensional inequality (implicitly) assume common preferences for all individuals, and hence are not sensitive to preference heterogeneity among members of society. In this paper, we measure the inequality of the distribution of equivalent incomes, which is a preference‐sensitive multidimensional wellbeing measure. To quantify the contribution of preference heterogeneity to wellbeing inequality, we use a decomposition me…
Multidimensional poverty measurement with individual preferences
How information about effort and luck shapes altruism of social preferences: A Survey Experiment
This paper introduces a test to compare the levels of altruism of social preferences over the decision maker’s own and another person’s monetary pay-off. We propose a straightforward adaptive bisectional method for eliciting social preferences, applied in an online survey experiment with 573 decision makers. In the experiment, we provided randomized information about the other person’s effort and luck to assess how this information influences the…
The Glass Half Full? Proportional Rationing and Well-Being in Disability Care
Eliciting Preferences for Well-Being Measurement: A Comparison of Methods
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Econometrics (9 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (9 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Preference (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)