 Tips for poverty analysis: the case of Spain, 1980-81 to 1990-91Coral del Río
UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa Abstract: In this paper, we apply the methodology developed by Jenkins and Lambert (1996) to the study of the evolution ofpoverty in Spain during the 1980's. The main advantage of this approach lies in the fact that it provides poverty orderings consitent with a wide subset of generalized poverty gap poverty indices, while allowing different poverty lines for each of the distributions being compared. Our contnbution focuses on two aspects. (i) We estimate poverty trends for homogeneous subgroups of households of the same size. For the heterogeneous population as a whole, we study the robustness of our results to the choice of the equivalence scale. (ii) We extend to our procedures of statistical inference which are already used in the inequality literature. The main conclusion is the unambrigous fall in poverty levels, both in the population as a whole as well as in all subgroups in the partition by household siz.e. Keywords: Poverty; dominance; Equivalence; scales; Statistical; inference (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cte:werepe:6054 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa |
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