addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

multidimensional distributions, where the multiple attributes in which an individual can be deprived are represented by dichotomized …. Moreover, second-degree upward and downward count distribution dominance are shown to be useful criteria for dividing the … measures of deprivation into two separate subfamilies. To provide a normative justification of the dominance criteria we …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics … statistics. It builds on the pioneering study by Dang, Lanjouw, Luoto, and McKenzie (Journal of Development Economics, 2014 …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics … statistics. It builds on the pioneering study by Dang, Lanjouw, Luoto, and McKenzie (Journal of Development Economics, 2014 …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with … as few as two survey rounds and produces point estimates of transitions along the welfare distribution at the more … assumptions. The method could also inform investigation of other welfare outcome dynamics. …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with … as few as two survey rounds and produces point estimates of transitions along the welfare distribution at the more … assumptions. The method could also inform investigation of other welfare outcome dynamics …