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Consistent Testing for Poverty Dominance

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  • Bram Thuysbaert
  • Ricardas Zitikis

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If uncertainty exists over the exact location of the poverty line or over which measure to use to compare poverty between distributions, one may want to check whether poverty dominance holds. We develop a consistent statistical test to test the null of poverty dominance against the alternative of nondominance. Dominance criteria corresponding to absolute and relative poverty measures are dealt with. The poverty line is allowed to depend on the income distribution. A bootstrap procedure is proposed to estimate critical values for the test. Our results cover both independent and paired samples.

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  • Bram Thuysbaert & Ricardas Zitikis, 2005. "Consistent Testing for Poverty Dominance," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2005-64, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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