Measuring Social Inclusion in Europe: a non-additive approach with the expert-preferences of public policy planners
本文利用Eurostat纵向数据，通过Choquet积分非加总聚合方法，结合意大利政策制定者和经济学者的专家偏好，构建了欧洲行政区域的社会包容指数，发现地中海国家包容水平低于北欧/中欧且差距扩大。
This paper introduces a normative, expert-informed, time-dependent index of Social Inclusion for European administrative regions in five countries, using longitudinal data from Eurostat. Our contribution is twofold: first, our indicator is based on a non-additive aggregation operator (the Choquet Integral), which allows us to model many preferences' structures and to overcome the limitations embedded in other approaches. Second, we elicit the parameters of the aggregation operator from an expert panel of Italian policymakers in Social Policy, and Economics scholars. Our results highlight that Mediterranean countries exhibit lower Inclusion levels than Northern/Central countries, and that this disparity has grown in the last decade. Our results complement and partially challenge existing evidence from data-driven aggregation methods.