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The middle muddle : conceptualizing and measuring the global middle class
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
because of a lack of consensus on appropriate identification criteria for a person to be deemed to be middle class. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409503
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The Middle Muddle : Conceptualizing and Measuring the Global Middle Class
Jayadev, Arjun - 2015
because of a lack of consensus on appropriate identification criteria for a person to be deemed to be middle class. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011418
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Should National Happiness Be Maximized?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2007
Cross-disciplinary 'happiness research' has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we postulate that the appropriate approach is not to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055391
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Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2006
the method does not reveal substantial reporting bias in measures of health disparities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348698
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Does Reporting Heterogeneity Bias the Measurement of Health Disparities?
Bago d'Uva, Teresa - 2006
bias in measures of health disparities is not large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733888
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Slanted Images : Measuring Nonverbal Media Bias During the 2016 Election
Boxell, Levi - 2021
expressed on each face. I find strong evidence for nonverbal media bias in both the choice of which politicians to cover and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229435
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Four parameters for measuring democratic deliberation : theoretical and methodological challenges and how to respond
Fleuß, Dannica; Helbig, Karoline; Schaal, Gary S. - 2018
Although measuring democratic deliberation is necessary for a valid measurement of the performance of democracies, it … performance is the need for a theoretical and methodological approach for "upscaling" the measurement of deliberation from the … aggregation which can be adjusted to make the measurement of democratic deliberation compatible with the various general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823597
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Measurement of health, the sensitivity of the concentration index, and reporting heterogeneity
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
Using representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872912
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On some problems of variable population poverty comparisons
Hassoun, Nicole; Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2010
This paper demonstrates that the property of 'replication invariance', generally considered to be an innocuous requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other plausible variable- and fixed-population axioms. --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662320
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Measurement of horizontal inequity in health care utilisation using European panel data
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Jones, Andrew M.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
Measurement of inequity in health care delivery has focused on the extent to which health care utilisation is or is not distributed according to need, irrespective of income. Studies using cross-sectional data have proposed various ways of measuring and standardizing for need, but inevitably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372989