Counting the missing poor in pre-industrial societies
Mathieu Lefebvre
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Gregory Ponthiere
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Résumé
Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures suffer from a selection bias: they do not count the missing poor (i.e., persons who would have been counted as poor provided they did not die prematurely). The Pre-Industrial period being characterized by an evolutionary advantage (i.e., a higher number of surviving children per household) of the non-poor over the poor, one may expect that the missing poor bias is substantial during that period. This paper quantifies the missing poor bias in Pre-Industrial societies, by computing the hypothetical headcount poverty rates that would have prevailed provided the non-poor did not benefit from an evolutionary advantage over the poor. Using data on Pre-Industrial England and France, we show that the sign and size of the missing poor bias are sensitive to the degree of downward social mobility.
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Counting the missing poor in pre-industrial societies
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Résumé |
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Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures suffer from a selection bias: they do not count the missing poor (i.e., persons who would have been counted as poor provided they did not die prematurely). The Pre-Industrial period being characterized by an evolutionary advantage (i.e., a higher number of surviving children per household) of the non-poor over the poor, one may expect that the missing poor bias is substantial during that period. This paper quantifies the missing poor bias in Pre-Industrial societies, by computing the hypothetical headcount poverty rates that would have prevailed provided the non-poor did not benefit from an evolutionary advantage over the poor. Using data on Pre-Industrial England and France, we show that the sign and size of the missing poor bias are sensitive to the degree of downward social mobility.
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Auteur(s) |
Mathieu Lefebvre
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, Pierre Pestieau
2, 3, 4, 5
, Gregory Ponthiere
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AMSE -
Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques
( 526949 )
- 5-9 Boulevard Bourdet
CS 50498
13205 Marseille Cedex 1
- France
2
Université de Liège
( 93075 )
- Place du 20-Août, 7 4000 Liège
- Belgique
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CORE -
Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain]
( 48233 )
- 34, Voie du Roman Pays B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgique
4
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
5
PJSE -
Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 578027 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
6
UCL -
Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
( 92863 )
- Place de l'Université 1 - 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve
- Belgique
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Nom de la revue |
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication électronique |
2022-03-07
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URL éditeur |
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11698-022-00243-y
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Classification |
ACL-2 / A
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Date de publication |
2023-01
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Volume |
17
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Numéro |
1
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Page/Identifiant |
155-183
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Mots-clés |
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Measurement, Selection effects, Missing poor, Poverty
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DOI | 10.1007/s11698-022-00243-y |
UT key WOS | 000765637800001 |
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