TIPs for the Analysis of Poverty in Mexico, 1992-2005

Carlos Urzúa, Alejandra Macías and Héctor H. Sandoval
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Alejandra Macías: Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo en México
Héctor H. Sandoval: Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social

Revista de Administración, Finanzas y Economía (Journal of Management, Finance and Economics), 2008, vol. 2, issue 1, 74-91

Abstract: This paper proposes some changes to the official methodology that is currently in use to measure the state of poverty in Mexico. Among other suggestions, it is recommended the use of bootstrapping to estimate confidence intervals for the poverty statistics, as well as the use of dominance analysis when making inter-temporal comparisons. In particular, since poverty lines change over time, the paper proposes the use of TIP curves for that end. Using the eight surveys that were made during the period 1992-2005, the paper presents a large number of absolute poverty statistics and TIP curves, as well as comparisons among them

Keywords: Poverty; confidence intervals; standard error; bootstrap; resampling; FGT measures; TIP curves; dominance; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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