Mortalité différentielle et pauvreté par âge

Mathieu Lefebvre, Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere

Revue française d'économie, 2014, vol. Volume XXIX, issue 4, 173-196

Abstract: Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures reflect not only the ?true? poverty, but, also, the selection process induced by income-differentiated mortality. In front of this selection bias, one solution consists of truncating lifetime income profiles of prematurely dead poor persons by means of a fictitious income. In this paper we assess the effect of age on the selection bias. In this purpose we use data on poverty by age in Belgium and we compare « classical » poverty measures to adjusted poverty measures obtained through the extension of lifetime income profiles for the prematurely dead persons. We show that there is a gap between both measures of poverty at any age but this gap is increasing with age.

Date: 2014
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