The Measurement of Poverty: An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation (published in Economic Letters, vol.22 (1997), pp.571-588)

We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on Poverty Measurement. Using a sample of 486 students from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which perceptions of poverty correspond to the axioms.

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Year of publication:	1994-07
Authors:	Amiel, Yoram ; Cowell, Frank A
Institutions:	Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
Subject:	Poverty \| poverty axioms \| inequality \| transfer principle \| monotonocity

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Series:	STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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