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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?
Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016
Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...
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A flow measure of missing women by age and disease
Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … previously found (4-5 million excess female deaths per year), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, is … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that …
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An absolute multidimensional poverty measure in the functioning space (and relative measure in the resource space) : an illustration using Indian data
Dotter, Caroline; Klasen, Stephan - 2019
experimenting with different reference populations. Empirically we find that the overall ranking of poverty in India does not change …
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Missing women : age and disease ; a correction
Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2013
among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …
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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021
), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East … Millionen fehlenden Frauen insgesamt), dass sie in Indien bei Erwachsenen ebenso schwerwiegend ist wie bei Kindern und dass sie …
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Counting missing women - a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021
), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East …
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Intra-Household Gender Disparities in Children's Medical Care Before Death in India
Asfaw, Abay - 2007
The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …
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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454366
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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226886
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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471193