Poverty Orderings when Welfare Comparisons are Uncertain.

In applied welfare economics, equivalence scales for household composition and size corrections, and appropriate price deflators are minimum requirements to perform interhousehold comparisons of welfare, measured via household income or consumption information. In practice, the information available...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dercon, S
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2001