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A theory of multidimensional poverty measures for ordinal variables with endogenous weights

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  • Rodrigo Peñaloza

    (Departamento de Economia (Department of Economics) Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Ciência da Informação e Documentação (FACE) (Faculty of Economics, Administration, Accounting and Information Science) Universidade de Brasília)

Abstract

We build multidimensional fuzzy versions of the headcount and the Foster-Greer- Thorbecke poverty indexes comprised of ordinal variables. To do that, we de ne ordinal expectation and ordinal variance for ordinal variables and extend Theils theory of dual variability to ordinal categorical variables, which allows us to make the weights of our multidimensional fuzzy poverty measures endogenous.

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  • Rodrigo Peñaloza, 2011. "A theory of multidimensional poverty measures for ordinal variables with endogenous weights," Working papers - Textos para Discussao do Departamento de Economia da Universidade de Brasilia 349, Departamento de Economia da Universidade de Brasilia.
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    Keywords

    ordinal variables; multidimensional poverty measures; fuzzy sets; dual measures of variability.;
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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