Alternative weighting structures for multidimensional poverty assessment

Danilo Cavapozzi (), Wei Han () and Raffaele Miniaci

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, vol. 13, issue 3, 425-447

Abstract: A multidimensional poverty assessment requires a weighting scheme to aggregate the well-being dimensions considered. We use Alkire and Foster’s J. Public Econ. 95, 476–487 ( 2011a ) framework to discuss the channels through which a change of the weighting structure affects the outcomes of the analysis in terms of overall poverty assessment, its dimensional and subgroup decomposability and policy evaluation. We exploit the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to evaluate how alternative weighting structures affect the measurement of poverty for the population of over-50s in ten European countries. Further, we show that in our empirical exercise the results based on hedonic weights estimated on the basis of life satisfaction self-assessments are robust to the presence of heterogeneous response styles across respondents. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Anchoring vignettes; Life satisfaction; Multidimensional poverty measurement; Weighting schemes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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