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Does freedom of choice have an intrinsic value for people and how do people value freedom of choice? Drawing on economics and social psychology the paper provides a theory and empirical evidence of how individuals may value freedom of choice and derive utility from it. It is argued that the...
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The paper focuses on satisfaction with income and proposes a utility model built on two value systems, the 'Ego' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to one own past and future income - and the 'Alter' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to a...
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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. …
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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. …
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …
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Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been …, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working across the social sciences. This has … reviews the evolution, current status, and future prospects of the poverty measurement literature on forcibly displaced …
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