New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index, with extensions

Kristof Bosmans, Lucio Esposito () and Peter Lambert ()
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Lucio Esposito: Università degli Studi di Pavia
Peter Lambert: University of Oregon

No 116, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: A particular scale-invariant index of poverty is subjected to careful analysis. This leads to a new perspective, not seen before, on the family of subgroup-consistent and scale-invariant poverty indices. Parametric families of new poverty indices are presented which offer the analyst a degree of flexibility in the choice of transfer sensitivity and distribution sensitivity which has not been available before now.

Keywords: Poverty measurement; Distributional properties. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written

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