, we show that the conclusions about poverty changes over time are significantly affected by using alternative strategies … overestimation of prices due to outliers and other sources of measurement error. Exogenous consumer price sources, often collected at …

of possible impacts of measurement errors on poverty analysis are briefly discussed. These experiments clearly show the …This paper firstly aims to evaluate the incidence of measurement error affecting the main variables collected in … the case of panel data, an estimation of the incidence of measurement error on the total variance can be obtained by …

for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice …

for dual approaches to the measurement of poverty is also established. The statistical results are established for … poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as … estimators of the curves used to infer stochastic dominance of any order. These curves can be used to determine whether poverty …