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Pré-publication, Document de travail |
Titre |
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Measuring Poverty Without The Mortality Paradox
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Résumé |
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Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures reflect not only the "true" poverty, but, also, the interferences or noise caused by the survival process at work. Such interferences lead to the Mortality Paradox: the worse the survival conditions of the poor are, the lower the measured poverty is. We examine several solutions to avoid that paradox. We identify conditions under which the extension, by means of a fictitious income, of lifetime income profiles of the prematurely dead neutralizes the noise due to differential mortality. Then, to account not only for the "missing" poor, but, also, for the "hidden" poverty (premature death), we use, as a fictitious income, the welfare-neutral income, making indifferent between life continuation and death. The robustness of poverty measures to the extension technique is illustrated with regional Belgian data.
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Auteur(s)
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Mathieu Lefebvre
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, Pierre Pestieau
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
, Grégory Ponthière
2, 3
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CREPP -
Center of Research in Public Economics and Population Economics
( 104680 )
- CREPP - HEC-ULg Department of Economics Boulevard du Rectorat, 7 Bâtiment 31, boîte 39 4000 Liège (Sart-Tilman)
- Belgique
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Université de Liège ( 93075 )
2
PSE -
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 139754 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
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Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique USC1336 ( 92114 )
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8545 ( 441569 )
3
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ( 7550 )
;
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
;
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
;
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
;
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
;
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( 441569 )
;
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Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement ( 577435 )
4
CORE -
Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain]
( 48233 )
- 34, Voie du Roman Pays B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgique
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Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain ( 92863 )
5
CEPR -
Center for Economic Policy Research
( 143559 )
- Royaume-Uni
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Date de production/écriture |
2011-09
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Audience |
Non spécifiée
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Domaine(s) |
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
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Référence interne |
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PSE Working Papers n°2011-30
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Mots-clés (JEL) |
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I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty/I.I3.I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
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Mots-clés |
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premature mortality, income-differentiated mortality, poverty measurement, censored income profile
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