Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale
Composite measures such as multidimensional poverty indices depend crucially on the weights assigned to the different dimensions and their indicators. A recent strand of the literature uses endogenous weights, determined by the data at hand, to compute poverty scores. Notwithstanding their merits, w...
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Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
2021
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