Three 'I's of Poverty Curves, With an Analysis of Uk Poverty Trends

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Lambert, Peter J.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a028611

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“…(Shorrocks, 1998;Lambert, 1997 and1998) Axioms 1 to 4 are widely accepted in the inequality literature and so we will not comment on these further (Lambert, 2001). Conversely, the focus axiom is chiefly used in the literature on poverty and has important implications for the inequity measure that we obtain.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Its foundations rely on previous work by Jenkins (1997) and Shorrocks (1998) in the literature on poverty and deprivation.…”

Section: Health Care Deprivation Profiles As a Measure Of Inequitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, inequity is measured as differences in the group means and it is implicitly assumed that giving the same weight to each observation is a desirable way of aggregating the health care distribution into a single index. * The methodological contribution of this paper is to apply some developments in the literature on poverty and deprivation to the analysis of inequity in health care (Jenkins and Lambert, 1997;Shorrocks, 1998). This produces a new approach to the measurement of inequity that enlarges the scope of the analysis and offers advantages with respect to the previous empirical literature.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Health care deprivation profiles in the measurement of inequality and inequity: An application to GP fundholding in the English NHS

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This is the submitted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Abstract: This paper proposes a new approach to the measurement of inequality and inequity in the delivery of health care based on contributions from the literature on poverty and deprivation. This approach has some appealing characteristics: 1) inequity is additively decomposable by population subgroups; 2) the approach does not rely on socio-economic ranks; 3) it provides a graphical representation of the distribution of inequity; 4) it offers a range of indices consistent with dominance. An empirical application is provided investigating the effect of the GP fundholding reform on equity in English NHS. The results show that the most equitable GP practices self-selected into the scheme in 1991; evidence of an inequity-reducing treatment effect as well as a selfselection effect are found in 1992 and 1993; the self-selection process reduces and no evidence of a treatment effect is present thereafter. Permanent repository link

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“…Its foundations rely on previous work by Jenkins (1997) and Shorrocks (1998) in the literature on poverty and deprivation.…”

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Health care deprivation profiles in the measurement of inequality and inequity: An application to GP fundholding in the English NHS

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“…P 1 (g(z)) yields the average poverty gap, which is not sensitive to the distribution of well-being among the poor. When α > 1, however, the P α (g(z)) are strictly 11 On this, see for instance Jenkins and Lambert (1997). Note that focussing on poverty gap measures is not needed for the analysis, although it simplifies the exposition.…”

Section: Poverty and Inequalitymentioning

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Equity and policy effectiveness with imperfect targeting

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Duclos

2007

Journal of Development Economics

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Abstract:We propose a general cost-of-inequality approach that jointly integrates horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequityaversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation programs done with simple under-coverage and leakage ratios or with other methods that do not take into account the heterogeneity of the poor and that do not address directly the social benefits of achieving normative criteria. Our methodology is illustrated using Tunisia data and two alternative poverty alleviation policies. We find inter alia that the social ranking of commodity and socio-demographic targeting in Tunisia depends on the policymaker's comparative preference for vertical and horizontal equity.

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“…Researchers who work with poverty lines and poverty measures judge it valuable to assess deprivation vis-a-vis a poverty line. Deprivation profiles and deprivation indices have been analyzed systematically by Jenkins and Lambert (1997) and Shorrocks (1998). As with many other poverty measures, the P α class gauges deprivation by fixing a poverty line in real terms and calculating poverty based only on the incomes of people below that line.…”

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confidence: 99%