全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14059 “Too young to die”. Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14059
	DP14059 “Too young to die”. Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality
	Jean-Marie Baland; Benoit Decerf; Guilhem Cassan
发表日期	2019-10-16
出版年	2019
语种	英语
摘要	Most measures of deprivation concentrate on deprivation among the living population and, thus, ignore premature mortality. This omission leads to a severe bias in the evaluation of deprivation. We propose three different measures that combine information on poverty and premature mortality of a population in a meaningful manner. These indices are consistent and satisfy a number of desirable properties unmet by all other measures combining early mortality and poverty. Moreover, these measures are readily computable with available data and easily interpretable. We show that omitting premature mortality leads to an underestimation of total deprivation in 2014 of at least 30% at the world level. We also show that the ranking in terms of deprivation of countries is substantially changed with our measures, and that our nderstanding of the evolution of countries’ deprivation may be reversed when taking premature mortality into account.
主题	Development Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Deprivation measurement Premature mortality Composite indices
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14059
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542945
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jean-Marie Baland,Benoit Decerf,Guilhem Cassan. DP14059 “Too young to die”. Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality. 2019.