Revisiting Poverty Measures Using Quantile Functions

Nair Unnikrishnan (), S.M. Sunoj () and Namitha Suresh ()

No 909, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: In this article we redefine various poverty measures in literature in terms of quantile functions instead of distribution functions in the prevailing approach. This enables provision for alternative methodology for poverty measurement and analysis along with some new results that are difficult to obtain in the existing framework. Several flexible quantile function models that can enrich the existing ones are proposed and their utility is demonstrated for real data.

Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2025-11
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Published in Forthcoming in Journal of Income Distributions

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