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Measuring poverty accounting for time

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  • Carlos Gradín

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    (Universidade de Vigo)

  • Coral del Río

    (Universidade de Vigo)

  • Olga Cantó

    (Instituto de Estudios Fiscales and Universidade de Vigo)

Abstract

In this paper we make a methodological proposal to measure poverty accounting for time by proposing a new index that aims at reconciling the way poverty is measured in a static and a dynamic framework. Our index is able to consider the duration of the poverty spell and the social preference for equality in well-being given that, in contrast with others that have been previously proposed, it is sensitive to the level of inequality between individual complete poverty experiences over time. Moreover, other indices in the literature can be interpreted as special cases of our more general measure.

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Paper provided by ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality in its series Working Papers with number 169.

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Length: 25 pages
Date of creation: 2010
Handle: RePEc:inq:inqwps:ecineq2010-169
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Keywords: intertemporal poverty; duration; equality; poverty measurement;

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  • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
  • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
  • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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