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Health and Income : A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155155
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Health and income : a robust comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905283
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Health and Income : A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718652
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Is the value of humanity increasing? A critical-level enquiry
Cockburn, John; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Zabsonré, Agnès - 2012
We assess whether the value of humanity (or global social welfare) has improved in the last decades despite (or because of ) the substantial increase in global population sizes. We use for this purpose a relatively unknown but simple and attractive social evaluation approach based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000631
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Pro-poor indirect tax reforms, with an application to Mexico
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul - 2012
This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to identify tax reforms that will be deemed absolutely or relatively pro-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000643
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Is the value of humanity increasing? A critical-level enquiry
Cockburn, John; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Zabsonré, Agnès - 2011
We assess whether the value of humanity (or global social welfare) has improved in the last decades despite (or because of ) the substantial increase in global population sizes. We use for this purpose a relatively unknown but simple and attractive social evaluation approach based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000797
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UNDP's Multidimensional poverty index
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2011
The measurement of well-being in its multidimensional aspects has become ever more prominent in monitoring development over the last three decades. This note discusses some of the properties of a recent multidimensional index proposed by the UNDP. Unlike most of its predecessors, UNDP's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000799
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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-7, pp. 1-43
This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308396
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Testing for restricted stochastic dominance
Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267350
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Chronic and transient poverty: measurement and estimation, with evidence from China
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - 2006
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267574