Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey
This paper surveys the small branch of welfare economics that studies indicators combining poverty and mortality. The paper distinguishes two reasons for constructing such indicators. The first reason is to perform multidimensional well-being compa...
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okr-10986-374622022-05-21T05:10:31Z Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey Decerf, Benoit WELFARE ECONOMICS ECONOMIC INDICATORS POVERTY INDICATORS MORTALITY INDICATORS WELL-BEING COMPARISON LIFE EXPECTANCY INEQUITY SELECTIVE MORTALITY NORMATIVE WELL-BEING INDICATORS POVERTY MEASUREMENT MORTALITY PARADOX POVERTY-ADJUSTED LIFE-EXPECTANCY MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY This paper surveys the small branch of welfare economics that studies indicators combining poverty and mortality. The paper distinguishes two reasons for constructing such indicators. The first reason is to perform multidimensional well-being comparisons. For this purpose, mortality has (negative) intrinsic value. The key question relates to the trade-off that the indicator makes between poverty and mortality, that is, between the quality and quantity of life. A lifecycle utility approach suggests expressing this trade-off as the number of years spent in poverty that is deemed equivalent to one year lost to mortality. The second reason is to investigate the instrumental role that selective mortality—the fact that the poor tend to die earlier—has on the evolution of poverty measures. Then, the key question is how to define the counterfactual situation against which the instrumental impact of mortality is assessed. 2022-05-20T16:32:00Z 2022-05-20T16:32:00Z 2022-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099402105162241895/IDU003ff3c5203a69044050bd030e5fb8d3af225 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37462 English Policy Research Workging Papers;10042 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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WELFARE ECONOMICS ECONOMIC INDICATORS POVERTY INDICATORS MORTALITY INDICATORS WELL-BEING COMPARISON LIFE EXPECTANCY INEQUITY SELECTIVE MORTALITY NORMATIVE WELL-BEING INDICATORS POVERTY MEASUREMENT MORTALITY PARADOX POVERTY-ADJUSTED LIFE-EXPECTANCY MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY |
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WELFARE ECONOMICS ECONOMIC INDICATORS POVERTY INDICATORS MORTALITY INDICATORS WELL-BEING COMPARISON LIFE EXPECTANCY INEQUITY SELECTIVE MORTALITY NORMATIVE WELL-BEING INDICATORS POVERTY MEASUREMENT MORTALITY PARADOX POVERTY-ADJUSTED LIFE-EXPECTANCY MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY Decerf, Benoit Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey |
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This paper surveys the small branch
of welfare economics that studies indicators combining
poverty and mortality. The paper distinguishes two reasons
for constructing such indicators. The first reason is to
perform multidimensional well-being comparisons. For this
purpose, mortality has (negative) intrinsic value. The key
question relates to the trade-off that the indicator makes
between poverty and mortality, that is, between the quality
and quantity of life. A lifecycle utility approach suggests
expressing this trade-off as the number of years spent in
poverty that is deemed equivalent to one year lost to
mortality. The second reason is to investigate the
instrumental role that selective mortality—the fact that the
poor tend to die earlier—has on the evolution of poverty
measures. Then, the key question is how to define the
counterfactual situation against which the instrumental
impact of mortality is assessed. |
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Decerf, Benoit |
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Decerf, Benoit |
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Decerf, Benoit |
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Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey |
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Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey |
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Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey |
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Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey |
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Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey |
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normative indicators combining poverty and mortality : a survey |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2022 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099402105162241895/IDU003ff3c5203a69044050bd030e5fb8d3af225 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37462 |
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