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The Properties of the Watts Poverty Index under Lognormality

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  • Christophe Muller

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Under lognormality assumption, we derive the parametric formula of the Watts measure, one of the main axiomatically sound poverty measures. In these conditions, we derive new properties of the Watts measure, its sensitivity to distribution parameters and its parametric standard error.

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Article provided by AccessEcon in its journal Economics Bulletin.

Volume (Year): 9 (2001)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 1-9

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Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-01i30001

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Cited by:
  1. Christophe Muller, 2006. "Poverty Simulation And Price Changes," Working Papers. Serie AD 2006-13, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  2. Christophe Muller, 2005. "Defining Poverty Lines As A Fraction Of Central Tendency," Working Papers. Serie AD 2005-13, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  3. Christophe Muller, 2005. "Poverty and inequality under income and price dispersions," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 38(3), pages 979-998, August.

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