Ordinal Welfare Comparisons with Multiple Discrete Indicators: A First Order Dominance Approach and Application to Child Poverty

Channing Arndt, Roberta Distante, M. Azhar Hussain, Lars Peter Østerdal, Pham Lan Huong and Maimuna Ibraimo

No wp-2012-036, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We develop an approach for making welfare comparisons between populations with multidimensional discrete well-being indicators observed at the micro level. The approach is rooted in the concept of multidimensional first order dominance. It assumes that, for each indicator, the levels can be ranked ordinally from worse to better, however no assumptions are made about relative importance of any dimension nor about complementarity/substitutability relationships between dimensions.

Keywords: Household survey; Microeconomics; Population; Poverty measurement; Public welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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