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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application

Published:2008-06-10 Issue:2 Volume:32 Page:181-196
ISSN:0176-1714
Container-title:Social Choice and Welfare
language:en
Short-container-title:Soc Choice Welf

Author:

Basu Kaushik,Lee Travis

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Economics and Econometrics,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00355-008-0317-9.pdf

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