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Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Kapteyn, Arie; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013

We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to … investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate … that technological change and the increase in the generosity of health insurance on their own may explain 36% of the rise …

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Household Incidence of Pollution Control Policies: a Robust Welfare Analysis Using General Equilibrium Effects

Araar, Abdelkrim; Dissou, Yazid; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

This study assesses the incidence of pollution control policies on households. In contrast to previous studies, we employ an integrated framework combining a multisector general equilibrium model with a stochastic dominance analysis using household-leved data. We consider three policy...

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Multidimensional Poverty Dominance: Statistical Inference and an Application to West Africa

Batana, Yélé Maweki; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

This paper tests for robust multidimensional poverty comparisons across six countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Two dimensions are considered, nutritional status and assets. The estimation of the asset index is based on two factorial analysis methods. The first...

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Health and Income: a Robust Comparison of Canada and the US

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...

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Testing for Poverty Dominance: an Application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

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Comparing Multidimensional Poverty with Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being

Batana, Yélé Maweki; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010

This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood ratio. Empirical applications are based on the DHS...

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Partial Multidimensional Inequality Orderings

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010

The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality comparisons, as developed for instance by Atkinson...

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Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows agents to differ in dimensions that cannot always be precisely captured within the usual money-metric indicators of living standards. Examples of such dimensions include household...

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Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance

Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the advantage that, if this null is rejected, then all that is left is dominance. This also leads us to...

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Equivalence Scales and Housing Deprivation Orderings: an Example Using Lebanese Data

Bibi, Sami; Makdissi, Paul; Yazbeck, Myra - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009

Housing deprivation orderings raise challenges as far as measurement is concerned. The first challenge resides in the identification of an adequate variable that characterizes housing services consumed by households. Another challenge may arise in the comparisons of housing services consumption...

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