Migration, Poverty, and Housing: Welfare Comparisons Using Sequential Stochastic Dominance

Paul Makdissi () and Quentin Wodon

Cahiers de recherche from Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke

Abstract: Welfare comparisons may be sensitive to the assumptions made about economies of scale within households. This paper uses recent advances in sequential stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty and housing quality comparisons to assumptions about economies of scale. The method is applied to a comparison of migrant and non-migrant households in Honduras. While simple comparisons based on per capita income and the estimated rental value of the dwelling suggest that migrants do better than non-migrants for poverty, but worse for housing quality, none of the two group is found to dominate the other for reasonable welfare thresholds when assumptions regarding economies of scale are relaxed.

Keywords: Migration; poverty; housing; equivalence scales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 R23 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2001, Revised 2002
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://gredi.recherche.usherbrooke.ca/wpapers/01_01_pm.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:shr:wpaper:01-01

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Cahiers de recherche from Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-François Rouillard ().