dc.contributor.author | Foster, James E. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-14T01:08:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-14T01:08:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15847 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which identifies the time periods during which a person is poor; and a duration cutoff, which is the minimum percentage of time a person must be in poverty in order to be chronically poor. The new family of chronic poverty measures is constructed by raising the (per-period) normalized gaps of the chronically poor to a power a > 0 and then aggregating. The resulting indices, which can be viewed as duration adjusted Pa measures, satisfy a battery of properties for chronic poverty indices, including time monotonicity and population decomposability. An illustrative application of the family is provided using data from Argentina. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University | en |
dc.subject | Chronic Poverty | |
dc.subject | Distribution | |
dc.subject | Measurement | |
dc.subject | Axioms | |
dc.subject | JEL Classification Number: I32 | |
dc.subject | JEL Classification Number: D63 | |
dc.subject | JEL Classification Number: D31 | |
dc.subject.other | | |
dc.title | A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures | |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.description.department | Economics | |