"Too Young to Die": Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality

Jean-Marie Baland, Guilhem Cassan and Benoît Decerf ()

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 226-57

Abstract: Most measures of deprivation concentrate on deprivation among the living population and, thus, ignore premature mortality. This omission leads to a severe bias in the evaluation of deprivation. We propose two different measures that combine information on poverty and premature mortality of a population. These measures are consistent and satisfy a number of desirable properties unmet by all other measures combining early mortality and poverty. Moreover, one measure is readily computable with available data and easily interpretable. We show that omitting premature mortality leads to an underestimation of total deprivation in 2015 of at least 36 percent at the world level.

JEL-codes: C43 I12 I32 N33 N34 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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