The Properties of the Watts Poverty Index under Lognormality

Christophe Muller

Economics Bulletin, 2001, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Under lognormality assumption, we derive the parametric formula of the Watts measure, one of the main axiomatically sound poverty measures. In these conditions, we derive new properties of the Watts measure, its sensitivity to distribution parameters and its parametric standard error.

Keywords: Income; Distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-08-30
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