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moment in time. PASS collects information on material deprivation with a list of 26 possessions and activities. The article … discusses the difficulties of measuring material deprivation and identifies several sources of measurement error and selection … bias. However, even when controlling for such errors and biases, regression models for different deprivation indices show a …
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is proposed and applied.Education spending shows significant bias in favor of boys in Pakistan, though not in South … variable proving to be a significant determinant of expenditure allocation in South Africa, but not in Pakistan.The results …
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In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is determined. E. g., household size might be a criterion...
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We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and...
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Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by seasonality, economic instability, and illiquidity across months. To capture within-year variability, we extend traditional poverty measures to include a temporal dimension....
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deprivation have statistically-significant effects on reported concerns about crime, while relative satisfaction plays no role. At …
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societies in European countries. Social and economic exclusion – alternatively called as deprivation – are widely recognized as … development of countries. The aim of the analysis is to identify the magnitude of socio-economic deprivation (human poverty) and … countries. For quantitative assessment of the socio-economic deprivation level we apply a bundle of arbitrary chosen indicator …
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This paper investigates whether augmenting models with the variance risk premium (VRP) and Google search data improves the quality of the forecasts for real oil prices. We considered a time sample of monthly data from 2007 to 2019 that includes several episodes of high volatility in the oil...
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Equivalence scales are routinely applied to adjust the income of households of different size and composition. Because of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation of equivalence scales have been proposed. Until now, no...
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to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the … deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
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