Poverty orderings and intra-household inequality

Eugenio Peluso () and Alain Trannoy

CHILD Working Papers from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY

Abstract: We investigate under which conditions it is possible to infer the evolution of poverty at the individual level from the knowledge of poverty among households. The analysis is based on a reduced household model (Peluso and Trannoy 2007) and provides results in terms of preservation of poverty orderings...

Keywords: health insurance markets; information gathering; discrimination risk; classification risk; self-insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 D83 G22 L52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2008-10
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