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Poverty in Ireland, 1987-1994 : a stochastic dominance approach

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  • Madden, David (David Patrick)
  • Smith, Fiona

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Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty line. This analysis is carried out for Ireland using Household Budget Survey data for 1987 and 1994 including tests for the statistical significance of the results. We find that for a wide range of absolute poverty lines, poverty in Ireland fell over the 1987-1994 period. When relative poverty lines are used, second-order dominance for 1987 over 1994 is found for the case of expenditure and third-order dominance for 1994 over 1987 for the case of income.

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Paper provided by University College Dublin in its series Open Access publications from University College Dublin with number urn:hdl:10197/780.

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Length: 28
Date of creation: Jul 2000
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Publication status: Published in Economic and social review (2000-07) v.31, p.187-214
Handle: RePEc:ner:ucddub:urn:hdl:10197/780

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Keywords: Poverty--Ireland; Stochastic orders; Poverty--Statistical methods;

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  1. Wasiu Adekunle Are, 2012. "Growth and Income Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty: A Decomposition Analysis for Ireland, 1987-2005," Working Papers 201231, School Of Economics, University College Dublin.
  2. David Madden, 2002. "A Review of Recent Research into Poverty in Ireland," Working Papers 200232, School Of Economics, University College Dublin.
  3. Madden, David (David Patrick), 2002. "A review of recent research into trends in poverty," Open Access publications from University College Dublin urn:hdl:10197/790, University College Dublin.
  4. Somnath Chattopadhyay, 2011. "Earnings efficiency and poverty dominance analysis: a spatial approach," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 31(3), pages 2298-2318.
  5. Servaas van der Berg & Debra Shepherd, 2010. "Signalling performance: Continuous assessment and matriculation examination marks in South African schools," Working Papers 28/2010, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
  6. David Madden, 2006. "Body Mass Index and the Measurement of Obesity," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 06/11, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
  7. Brian Nolan & Bertrand Maitre, 2000. "A Comparative Perspective on Trends in Income Inequality in Ireland," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 31(4), pages 329-350.

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