# Egalitarian Price of Fairness for Indivisible Goods

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16145 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.16145/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 25 Feb 2024.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [The Cost of EFX: Generalized-Mean Welfare and Complexity Dichotomies with Few Surplus Items](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.12849/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In the context of fair division, the concept of price of fairness has been introduced to quantify the loss of welfare when we have to satisfy some fairness condition. In other words, it is the price we have to pay to guarantee fairness. Various settings of fair division have been considered previously; we extend to the setting of indivisible goods by using egalitarian welfare as the welfare measure, instead of the commonly used utilitarian welfare. We provide lower and upper bounds for various fairness and efficiency conditions such as envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) and maximum Nash welfare (MNW).