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Personal information:

• Present appointment:
  Assistant professor, Maastricht University, since 2007
• Other associations:
  Research fellow, METEOR, Maastricht University, since 2008
  Research fellow, Center for Economic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, since 2007
• Previous appointments:
  Postdoctoral fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2006-2007
  Research assistant, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2000-2006
• Education:
  Ph.D. in Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 26, 2006
  Master of Science in Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2000
  Undergraduate studies in economics (Licentiaat Economische Wetenschappen), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999
• Born on October 12, 1977, in Diest, Belgium

Teaching:

• Design of Tax Systems (2029B), Maastricht University
• Information, Justice and the Political Process (3074B), Maastricht University
• Openbare financiën en public choice (2026B) (Public Finance and Public Choice), Maastricht University
• Public Pricing (3019S), Maastricht University

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 and L Lauwers, 2010. A Lorenz-based characterization of the minimal overlap rule.
• Bosmans K and FA Cowell, 2009. The class of absolute decomposable inequality measures. DARP Discussion Paper 99, STICERD, London School of Economics.
• Bosmans K, K Decancq and A Decoster, 2009. The evolution of international inequality: absolute, relative, and intermediate views.
• Bosmans K, L Esposito and PJ Lambert, 2009. New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index, with extensions.
• Bosmans K, L Esposito and E Schokkaert, 2009. A questionnaire on cardinal utility and equal sacrifice.
• Bosmans K, L Lauwers and E Ooghe, 2009. Consistent multidimensional poverty comparisons.
• Bosmans K and L Lauwers, 2007. Lorenz comparisons of nine rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims. CES Discussion Paper 07.05, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Articles in journals:

• 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, 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.