Raileanu Szeles, Monica; Fusco, Alessio - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009
Item Response Theory (IRT) has recently been proposed as a framework to measure deprivation. It allows deriving a latent measure of deprivation from a set of dichotomous observed items of deprivation and analyzing determinants of deprivation. We investigate further the use of IRT models in the...