Social Welfare and Behavioral Public Policies

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Marco Fabbri

University Pompeu Fabra, Department of Business and Economics; University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE)

Date Written: December 1, 2014

Abstract

This book proposes a detailed introduction to behavioral public policymaking and three original contributions. The introductory chapter focuses on specific issues of welfare analysis. Welfare analysis is a two steps procedure. First, the analyst determines how a policy affects individuals’ well-being. Second, the analyst aggregates the well-being across individuals. In the remaining sections of the introduction, I focus on the first step of the procedure. I propose an overview of the literature and of the still open debate regarding this issue between behavioral science scholars. I focus on the second step of the welfare analysis procedure in chapter 2. Beside introducing and discussing the problem of aggregation of individuals’ utility and proposing an overview of the literature, in this chapter I also suggest a methodological contribution concerning the social analyst’s choice of the social welfare function. In chapter 3 and 4 I discuss two innovative policies that make use of behavioral regularities in order to increase social welfare.

Suggested Citation

Fabbri, Marco, Social Welfare and Behavioral Public Policies (December 1, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3150437 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3150437

Marco Fabbri (Contact Author)

University Pompeu Fabra, Department of Business and Economics ( email )

Barcelona
Spain

University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) ( email )

Roetersstraat 11
Amsterdam, 1018 WB
Netherlands

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