Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments
提出一种社会选择规则，将调查中获取的偏好聚合为对现状政策的边际调整，该规则对称、序数、局部且防策略操纵，可用于基于主观幸福感调查的政策指导。
We propose a social choice rule for aggregating preferences elicited from surveys into a marginal adjustment of policy from the status quo. The mechanism is: (i) symmetric in its treatment of survey respondents; (ii) ordinal, using only the orientation of respondents' indifference surfaces; (iii) local, using only preferences in the neighborhood of current policy; and (iv) what we call “first-order strategy-proof,” making the gains from misreporting preferences second order. The mechanism could be applied to guide policy based on how policy affects responses to subjective well-being surveys.