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Social evaluation of deprivation count distributions

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  • Rolf Aaberge

    (Research Department, Statistics Norway and ESOP, University of Oslo)

  • Andrea Brandolini

    (Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research, Bank of Italy)

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the measurement of the extent of deprivation when the available information is given by a set of dichotomous variables, and the data are summarised by the count distribution, i.e. the distribution of the number of dimensions in which an individual suffers from deprivation. Next, by drawing on the expected utility framework that originates from Atkinson (1970) the individual deprivation counts are aggregated into summary measures of deprivation, which prove to admit a convenient decomposition into the mean and the dispersion of the distribution of multiple deprivations.

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  • Rolf Aaberge & Andrea Brandolini, 2014. "Social evaluation of deprivation count distributions," Working Papers 342, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
    • Handle: RePEc:inq:inqwps:ecineq2014-342
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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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