Group differential for attainment and failure

Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan and Srijit Mishra (srijit.mishra@uohyd.ac.in)

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Abstract: The study revisits the properties of Group Differential (GD) measures and extends it to include monotonicity and policy sensitivity axioms. Imposing level sensitivity, which indicates that a given gap is worse off at higher (lower) level of attainment (failure), the study concurs that a simple difference and a simple ratio are the most basic GD measures for attainment and failure indicators respectively. It proposes two new measures, one each for attainment and failure, which have certain advantages from a policy implication perspective. An empirical illustration has been provided by taking two indicators from millennium development goals for different regions of the world.

Keywords: Level sensitivity; Monotonicity; Policy sensitivity; Simple difference; Simple ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2012-12
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