A theory of multidimensional poverty measures for ordinal variables with endogenous weights

Rodrigo Andrés Peñaloza ()

No 349, Working papers - Textos para Discussao do Departamento de Economia da Universidade de Brasilia from Departamento de Economia da Universidade de Brasilia

Abstract: We build multidimensional fuzzy versions of the headcount and the Foster-Greer- Thorbecke poverty indexes comprised of ordinal variables. To do that, we de ne ordinal expectation and ordinal variance for ordinal variables and extend Theils theory of dual variability to ordinal categorical variables, which allows us to make the weights of our multidimensional fuzzy poverty measures endogenous.

Keywords: ordinal variables; multidimensional poverty measures; fuzzy sets; dual measures of variability. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2011-01
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