On multidimensional poverty rankings of binary attributes |
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| Authors: | Vito Peragine Maria G Pittau Ernesto Savaglio Stefano Vannucci |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics and Finance, DiEF, University of Bari, Bari, Italy;2. Department of Statistics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy;3. Department of Economics, University ‘G.D'Annunzio’ of Pescara, Pescara, Italy;4. Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy |
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| Abstract: | We address the problem of ranking distributions of attributes in terms of poverty, when the attributes are represented by binary variables. To accomplish this task, we identify a suitable notion of “multidimensional poverty line” and characterize axiomatically the Head-Count and the Attribute-Gap poverty rankings, which are the natural counterparts of the most widely used income poverty indices. Finally, we apply our methodology and compare our empirical results with those obtained with some other well-known poverty measures. |
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