David Donaldson
Biographic Data
| ID | 962170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Donaldson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Donaldson |
| SIGNATURE | DONALDSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8036-3455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Emotional drivers of pedagogy and their place in the motivational process: Distinguishing percepts from outcomes
Introduction Research examining teachers’ experiences during the Covid pandemic highlighted the importance of emotion as a driver of motivation, specifically the emotions of CARE, CURIOSITY, COOPERATION and CHALLENGE. Here we examine the generalisability of those findings in the post-pandemic period. Methods Interviews were carried out with a new cohort of nine Scottish teachers, and deductive thematic and narrative analyses were used to analyse …
Optimising episodic encoding within segmented virtual contexts
Theories of Arousal Predict a Link Between Heart Rate Variability and Reactive Aggression: Meta‐Analytic Results Disagree
Polyvagal theory posits that habitually aggressive individuals might have an impaired capacity to calm after arousal, which has led to the investigation of Arousal‐based biological indicators ‐ “biomarkers” ‐ of aggression, to identify individuals at high risk. The most popular approach in research examining (specifically reactive) aggression is the use of wearable technologies that can non‐invasively measure heart rate variability (HRV), a cardi…
Do doorways really matter: Investigating memory benefits of event segmentation in a virtual learning environment
Learning from learning logs: A case study of metacognition in the primary school classroom
Structured thinking activities ( STA s) are pedagogical tools used to support metacognition in classrooms. Despite their popularity, little is known about how pupils use STA s as platforms to think about and manage their own thinking (i.e. as metacognitive tools). This case study investigated pupils’ use of STA s in relation to metacognition throughout a school year. We focus on two 8‐year‐old pupils, Amy and Laura, as they completed two specific…
Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension
Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction comes from a 2005 Nature Neuroscience publication by DeLong, Urbach and Kutas, who observed a graded modulation of electrical brain potentials (N400) to nouns and preceding articles by the probability that people use a word to continue the sentence fragment (‘cloze’). In our direct replication stud…
CHAPTER 20 Population Ethics
This chapter reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. This chapter provides an overview of the critical‐level utilitarian population principles and their generalized counterparts, examine important properties of these principles and discuss their relationships to other variable population social evaluation rules. The chapter illustrates the difficulties arising in population ethics by means of an impossibility result and present chara…
Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty
Critical-Level Population Principles And The Repugnant Conclusion
Intertemporal Social Evaluation
A social-evaluation functional assigns a social ranking of alternatives to each information profile in its domain. In the classical multi-profile model of social choice, profiles are restricted to welfare information: all non-welfare information is implicitly assumed to be fixed. Because of this, the conventional approach does not allow us to discern the way in which the functional makes use of non-welfare information. For that, multiple non-welf…
Population Ethics and the Value of Life
Public policies frequently involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing countries. In order to assess the corresponding feasible choices on normative grounds, criteria for social evaluation that are capable of ranking alternatives with different populations and population sizes are required
The Identification of Fixed Costs From Consumer Behavior
Some household expenditures, such as those for subsistence or basic needs, are fixed. Using the methodology of equivalence scales, we develop a model in which differences in fixed costs of characteristics across households can be identified from household behavior. Equivalent expenditure for a household is the expenditure needed to bring a reference household, such as a single childless adult, to the level of well-being of household members. The …
Variable-population extensions of social aggregation theorems
Anonymous Single-profile Welfarism
Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics
This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever lived). The axiomatic method is employed, and topics investigated include: the measurement of individual well-being, social attitudes toward inequality of well-being, the main…
The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
This article examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical-level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian, and number-dampened utilitarian families and their generalized counterparts, we consider the restricted number-dampened family and introduce two new ones: the restricted critical-level and restricted number-dependent critical-level families. Subsets of the rest…
Chapter 11 Utilitarianism and the theory of justice
Information Invariance in Variable‐Population Social‐Choice Problems
We examine the possibilities of extending Sen's taxonomy of fixed‐population information assumptions regarding the measurability and interpersonal comparability of individual utilities to social‐choice problems where the population may vary. It is shown that in order to avoid impossibility results, informationally more demanding assumptions than in the fixed‐population framework are required. We provide characterizations of variable‐population so…
Foreign aid and population policy: Some ethical considerations
Market demand curves and Dupuit–Marshall consumers' surpluses: A general equilibrium analysis
Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems
Social Aggregation and the Expected Utility Hypothesis
Uncertainty and critical-level population principles
Birth-Date Dependent Population Ethics: Critical-Level Principles
Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation
Journal Article Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation Get access Charles Blackorby, Charles Blackorby University of British Columbia and GREQE, Marseille Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Donaldson David Donaldson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 415, 1 November 199…
The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
This article examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical-level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian, and number-dampened utilitarian families and their generalized counterparts, we consider the restricted number-dampened family and introduce two new ones: the restricted critical-level and restricted number-dependent critical-level families. Subsets of the rest…
Foreign aid and population policy: Some ethical considerations
Uncertainty and critical-level population principles
A Homiletic Exposition of the Expected Utility Hypothesis
The expected utility hypothesis is an important and celebrated result which allows some sense to be made of decision-making under uncertainty. It is however a result made up of many pieces. Here an attempt is made to make as clear as possible the assumptions used in deriving the expected utility hypothesis, and so to see which ones are needed to provide a rationale for each part of the hypothesis. First we show that the additive property of expec…
Learning from learning logs: A case study of metacognition in the primary school classroom
Structured thinking activities ( STA s) are pedagogical tools used to support metacognition in classrooms. Despite their popularity, little is known about how pupils use STA s as platforms to think about and manage their own thinking (i.e. as metacognitive tools). This case study investigated pupils’ use of STA s in relation to metacognition throughout a school year. We focus on two 8‐year‐old pupils, Amy and Laura, as they completed two specific…
Market demand curves and Dupuit–Marshall consumers' surpluses: A general equilibrium analysis
Leximin population ethics
A Homiletic Exposition of the Expected Utility Hypothesis
The expected utility hypothesis is an important and celebrated result which allows some sense to be made of decision-making under uncertainty. It is however a result made up of many pieces. Here an attempt is made to make as clear as possible the assumptions used in deriving the expected utility hypothesis, and so to see which ones are needed to provide a rationale for each part of the hypothesis. First we show that the additive property of expec…
Biased Measurements with Unbiased Expectations
Journal Article Biased Measurements with Unbiased Expectations Get access C. F. J. Boonekamp, C. F. J. Boonekamp University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Donaldson David Donaldson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 348, 1 December 1977, Pages 755–760, https://doi.org/10.23…
A single-parameter generalization of the Gini indices of inequality
Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Provide Consistent Policy Evaluations of Projects Involving Loss of Life
Journal Article Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Provide Consistent Policy Evaluations of Projects Involving Loss of Life? Get access Charles Blackorby, Charles Blackorby University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Donaldson David Donaldson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 383, 1 …
Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation
Journal Article Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation Get access Charles Blackorby, Charles Blackorby University of British Columbia and GREQE, Marseille Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Donaldson David Donaldson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 415, 1 November 199…
Household equivalence scales and welfare comparisons: A comment
Multi-valued demand and rational choice in the two-commodity case
Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Classical Utilitarian Principles
Welfarist population ethics uses information about the well-being (utilities) of the individuals who are alive in alternative states of affairs to make social evaluations. Most principles that produce orderings of alternative states employ social value functions of those utilities to generate social preferences.2 The most commonly used principles are classical utilitarianism, whose value function is the simple sum of utilities, and average utilit…
Consistency, Replication Invariance, and Generalized Gini Bargaining Solutions
Quasi-orderings and population ethics
Leximin population ethics
Birth-Date Dependent Population Ethics: Critical-Level Principles
Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
Advances in technology have made it possible for us to take actions that affect the numbers and identities of humans and other animals that will live in the future. Effective and inexpensive birth control, child allowances, genetic screening, safe abortion, in vitro fertilization, the education of young women, sterilization programs, environmental degradation and war all have these effects
Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems
Social Aggregation and the Expected Utility Hypothesis
Uncertainty and critical-level population principles
Information Invariance in Variable‐Population Social‐Choice Problems
We examine the possibilities of extending Sen's taxonomy of fixed‐population information assumptions regarding the measurability and interpersonal comparability of individual utilities to social‐choice problems where the population may vary. It is shown that in order to avoid impossibility results, informationally more demanding assumptions than in the fixed‐population framework are required. We provide characterizations of variable‐population so…
Foreign aid and population policy: Some ethical considerations
Market demand curves and Dupuit–Marshall consumers' surpluses: A general equilibrium analysis
Chapter 11 Utilitarianism and the theory of justice
The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
This article examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical-level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian, and number-dampened utilitarian families and their generalized counterparts, we consider the restricted number-dampened family and introduce two new ones: the restricted critical-level and restricted number-dependent critical-level families. Subsets of the rest…
Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics
This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever lived). The axiomatic method is employed, and topics investigated include: the measurement of individual well-being, social attitudes toward inequality of well-being, the main…
Population Ethics and the Value of Life
Public policies frequently involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing countries. In order to assess the corresponding feasible choices on normative grounds, criteria for social evaluation that are capable of ranking alternatives with different populations and population sizes are required
The Identification of Fixed Costs From Consumer Behavior
Some household expenditures, such as those for subsistence or basic needs, are fixed. Using the methodology of equivalence scales, we develop a model in which differences in fixed costs of characteristics across households can be identified from household behavior. Equivalent expenditure for a household is the expenditure needed to bring a reference household, such as a single childless adult, to the level of well-being of household members. The …
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