physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … index prove helpful in better tracking and understanding developments. Moreover, I find poor individuals to be adversely …Der vorliegende Beitrag erstellt einen mehrdimensionalen Armutsindex für Deutschland. Konzeptionell eingebettet in den …