Quantity Constraints, Poverty Lines and Poverty Orderings

Ramses H. Abul Naga

Journal of Economic Inequality, 2004, vol. 2, issue 1, pages 31-43

Abstract: By limiting the scope for substitution between commodities, other things equal quantity constraints raise the cost of living. Thus, rationed families have higher povery lines than unconstrained ones. This heterogeneity in both resources and poverty lines means that, in principle, bivariate dominance results are required to order distributions in terms of poverty. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

Keywords: bivariate stochastic dominance; poverty lines; poverty orderings; rationing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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