Multidimensional approaches to the measurement of poverty: findings based on the 1995 Israeli census of population and housing
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In: Research reports 3
In: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization; Migration and Culture, S. 45-66
In: Public choice, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 501
ISSN: 0048-5829
In: Public choice, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 501-505
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: Cambridge elements. Elements in development economics
The focus of this Element is on the idea that choice is hierarchical so that there exists an order of acquisition of durable goods and assets as real incomes increase. Two main approaches to deriving such an order are presented, the so-called Paroush approach and Item Response Theory. An empirical illustration follows, based on the 2019 Eurobarometer Survey. The Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order of acquisition, second that there is also an order of curtailment of expenditures when individuals face financial difficulties. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Although most traditional economic theory puts the individual at the centre of analysis, more recent approaches have acknowledged the importance of a wider sense of identity as a determinant of individual behaviour. Whether it is ethnicity, religion or gender, group membership is a central part of human life. This book presents new advances in areas which consider both the individual and the group when measuring inequalities and well-being.The first part of the book covers topics such as relative deprivation and happiness, domains where even economists have now recognized the
In: International Journal of Empirical Economics, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 1-25
This paper deals with the evaluation of the relative performance of different groups when the achievements of the members of a group are summarised by the relative distribution of these achievements across various ordered categories. After reviewing a previous attempt by Herrero and Vilar to deal with this issue, we propose to adopt an approach introduced recently by Apouey, Silber and Xu who derived a measure of achievement that, in the case of ordinal variables, takes account of both the inequality and the location of a distribution. Their approach is then applied to the analysis of political opinions, using the International Social Survey Programme for the year 2009. We compare questions dealing with respectively the need for the government to reduce income inequality, the duty of the government to help poor and unemployed individuals and the inequality of opportunity in health and education. It appears that the correlations obtained for our summary indicator of political opinions, based on the data covering 41 countries, reflect quite well the distinction we made between the three types of questions on political opinions. In addition, regression results show that generally the higher the inequality in a country, the more likely it is that people will approve government intervention aimed at reducing inequality and poverty.
In: Contemporary jewry: a journal of sociological inquiry, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 119-137
ISSN: 1876-5165
In: Inequality and Poverty; Research on Economic Inequality, S. 237-253
In: Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement; Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, S. 155-174
In: Urban studies, Band 35, Heft 8, S. 1335-1343
ISSN: 1360-063X
In this paper we analyse the allocation of criminal activity over the metropolitan area over time. At each period of time, the criminal must choose in which area to commit his/her next offence. The criminal's expectations regarding his/her utility as a function of the probability to be apprehended are updated in the process of work. We find general conditions, under which the criminal determines his optimal location strategy. A direct policy implication of our model suggests that spillover effect is the result of changing police activities.
In: Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa; Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, S. 191-214
In: Economics of education review, Band 36, S. 245-262
ISSN: 0272-7757
In: Applied Economics, Band 43, Heft 8, S. 951-
This paper has three goals. First, we wish to compare three multidimensional approaches to poverty and check to what extent they identify the same households as poor. Second, we aim at better understanding the determinants of poverty by estimating Logit regressions with five categories of explanatory variables: size of the household, age of the head of the household, her gender, marital status and status at work. Third, we introduce a decomposition procedure proposed recently in the literature, the so-called Shapley decomposition, in order to determine the exact marginal impact of each of the categories of explanatory variables. Our empirical analysis is based on data made available by the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We used its third wave and selected five countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 1-5
ISSN: 1536-7150
Abstract. A hypothesis has been analyzed that criminals learn by doing, that with experience criminals increase their activity so that with level outlays on police the incidence of crime may be increasing. This hypothesis is tested by statistical analysis of time series cross sectional data on crime levels, police outlays and various socioeconomic variables. The results confirm that "learning by doing"—accumulating criminal experience—increases criminal activity, that police outlays have a negative and significant effect on crime and that certain socioeconomic characteristics have a significant effect on crime.