Porter, C and Yalonetzky, G orcid.org/0000-0003-2438-0223 (2019) Fuzzy chronic poverty: A proposed response to Measurement Error for Intertemporal Poverty Measurement. Review of Income and Wealth, 65 (1). pp. 119-143. ISSN 0034-6586
Abstract
A number of chronic poverty measures are now empirically applied to quantify the prevalence and intensity of chronic poverty, vis-à-vis transient experiences, using panel data. Welfare trajectories over time are assessed in order to identify the chronically poor and distinguish them from the non-poor, or the transiently poor, and assess the extent and intensity of intertemporal poverty. We examine the implications of measurement error in the welfare outcome for some popular discontinuous chronic poverty measures, and propose corrections to these measures that seeks to minimize the consequences of measurement error. The approach is based on a novel criterion for the identification of chronic poverty that draws on fuzzy set theory. We illustrate the empirical relevance of the approach with a panel dataset from rural Ethiopia and some simulations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Porter, C. and Yalonetzky, G. (2017), Fuzzy Chronic Poverty: A Proposed Response to Measurement Error for Intertemporal Poverty Measurement. Review of Income and Wealth. doi:10.1111/roiw.12321, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12321. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | intertemporal poverty; poverty measurement; measurement error; fuzzy sets theory |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2017 11:57 |
Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/roiw.12321 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:114097 |