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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. |
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