Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: a cautionary tale

Multidimensional poverty measures have become a standard feature in poverty assessments. A large and growing body of work uses endogenous (data driven) weights to compute multidimensional poverty. We demonstrate that broad classes of endogenous weights violates key properties of poverty indices such...

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Main Authors: Dutta, I, Nogales, R, Yalonetzky, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021