Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63617 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2005/64
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
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. – poverty ; stochastic dominance ; random poverty line ; bootstrap
JEL: 
C40
I32
ISBN: 
9291907529
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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