Poverty: fuzzy measurement and crisp ordering

Buhong Zheng ()

Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, vol. 45, issue 1, 203-229

Abstract: In this paper we make several contributions to the literature of poverty measurement. We first identify a plausible source for the fuzziness in poverty identification which renders a natural and direct estimation of the poverty membership function; we then provide an axiomatic characterization for an important class of fuzzy poverty measures; and we finally derive a set of crisp dominance conditions for fuzzy partial poverty orderings. We also illustrate the results with the US CPS data. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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