Measuring lifetime poverty
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Measuring lifetime poverty
This paper presents an axiomatic framework for measuring lifetime poverty over multiple periods. For an individual, we argue that lifetime poverty is influenced by both the “snapshot” poverty of each period and the poverty level of the “permanent” lifetime consumption; it is also influenced by how poverty spells are distributed over the lifetime. For a society, we consider a path-independence r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Theory
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0022-0531
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2011.10.011