Personal information:

• • Present appointment:
    Associate professor, Maastricht University, since 2018

  • Other associations:
    Research fellow, GSBE, Maastricht University, since 2008
    Research fellow, Department of Economics, KU Leuven, since 2007

  • Previous appointments:
    Assistant professor, Maastricht University, 2007-2018
    Postdoctoral fellow, KU Leuven, 2006-2007
    Research assistant, KU Leuven, 2000-2006

  • Education:
    Ph.D. in Economics, KU Leuven, May 26, 2006
    Master of Science in Economics, KU Leuven, 2000
    Undergraduate studies in economics (Licentiaat Economische Wetenschappen), KU Leuven, 1999

  • Born on October 12, 1977, in Diest, Belgium

Research interests:

• • Inequality and poverty measurement

  • Social choice theory

  • Individual choice under risk

  • Empirical research on opinions concerning issues in welfare economics

Work in progress:

• • Bosmans K, B Dormans and ZE Öztürk. Failure to compensate or failure to reward? A decomposition of inequality of opportunity.

  • Gagnon N, K Bosmans and A Riedl. The effect of gender discrimination on labor supply. Revision requested by Journal of Political Economy.

Articles in journals:

• • Bosmans K and ZE Öztürk, 2022. Equality and responsibility: ex ante and ex post redistribution mechanisms. Economic Theory 73, 947-975.

  • Bosmans K and ZE Öztürk, 2022. Laissez-faire versus Pareto. Social Choice and Welfare 58, 741-751.

  • Bosmans K and ZE Öztürk, 2021. Measurement of inequality of opportunity: a normative approach. Journal of Economic Inequality 19, 213-237.

  • Bosmans K, 2020. Commentary on “From unidimensional to multidimensional inequality: a review”. Metron 78, 47-50.

  • Bosmans K, K Decancq and E Ooghe, 2018. Who's afraid of aggregating money metrics? Theoretical Economics 13, 467-484.

  • Bosmans K, L Lauwers and E Ooghe, 2018. Prioritarian poverty comparisons with cardinal and ordinal attributes. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120, 925-942.

  • Bosmans K and ZE Öztürk, 2018. An axiomatic approach to the measurement of envy. Social Choice and Welfare 50, 247-264.

  • Bosmans K, 2016. Consistent comparisons of attainment and shortfall inequality: a critical examination. Health Economics 25, 1425-1432.

  • Bosmans K, K Decancq and E Ooghe, 2015. What do normative indices of multidimensional inequality really measure? Journal of Public Economics 130, 94-104.

  • Bosmans K and L Esposito, 2015. Should fines depend on income? A questionnaire study on values and institutions. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 171, 355-371.

  • Bosmans K, 2014. Distribution-sensitivity of rank-dependent poverty measures. Journal of Mathematical Economics 51, 69-76.

  • Bosmans K, K Decancq and A Decoster, 2014. The relativity of decreasing inequality between countries. Economica 81, 276–292.

  • Bosmans K and E Ooghe, 2013. A characterization of maximin. Economic Theory Bulletin 1, 151-156. Corrigendum (with K Miyagishima and E Ooghe).

  • Bosmans K, L Esposito and PJ Lambert, 2011. New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index. Social Choice and Welfare 36, 241-247.

  • Bosmans K and L Lauwers, 2011. Lorenz comparisons of nine rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims. International Journal of Game Theory 40, 791-807.

  • Bosmans K and FA Cowell, 2010. The class of absolute decomposable inequality measures. Economics Letters 109, 154-156.

  • Bosmans K, L Lauwers and E Ooghe, 2009. A consistent multidimensional Pigou-Dalton transfer principle. Journal of Economic Theory 144, 1358-1371.

  • Bosmans K and E Schokkaert, 2009. Equality preference in the claims problem: a questionnaire study of cuts in earnings and pensions. Social Choice and Welfare 33, 533-557.

  • Bosmans K, 2007. Comparing degrees of inequality aversion. Social Choice and Welfare 29, 405-428.

  • Bosmans K, 2007. Extreme inequality aversion without separability. Economic Theory 32, 589-594.

  • Bosmans K, 2007. Income inequality, quasi-concavity, and gradual population shifts. Mathematical Social Sciences 53, 29-45.

Other publications:

• • Bosmans K, L Lauwers and E Ooghe. Prioritarianism and poverty measurement. Forthcoming in: J Silber (ed.) Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation. Routledge.

  • Bosmans K, K Decancq and A Decoster, 2014. Neemt de ongelijkheid in de wereld nu toe of af? CES - Leuvense Economische Standpunten, LES(S) 2014/144. Covered by the Belgian newspaper De Standaard.

  • Bosmans K, 2006. Measuring Economic Inequality and Inequality Aversion. Doctoral dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

  • Bosmans K and E Schokkaert, 2004. Social welfare, the veil of ignorance and purely individual risk: an empirical examination. In: FA Cowell (ed), Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 11. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 85-114.