Estimating measures of multidimensional poverty with Stata

Daniele Pacifico () and Felix Poege ()
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Felix Poege: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Stata Journal, 2017, vol. 17, issue 3, 687-703

Abstract: In this article, we describe the multidimensional poverty measures developed by Alkire and Foster (2011, Journal of Public Economics 95: 476–487) and show how they can be computed with Stata by using the mpi command.

Keywords: mpi; multidimensional poverty; Alkire–Foster method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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