Revisiting Informality: Evidence from Employment Characteristics and Job Satisfaction in Chile
A new OPHI working paper by Lea Cassar
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A Dissimilarity Index of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity (Revised and Updated)
A new OPHI working paper by Gaston Yalonetzky
A Report on Mexican Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
A new OPHI Working Paper by James E. Foster
Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries
Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (HDI)
This paper proposes a method for adjusting the HDI to reflect the distribution of human development achievements across the population, and across dimensions, using an inequality measure from the Atkinson family. We begin with a discussion of the proposed indices in an idealized setting where variables and their scales have been identified and the data [...]
Human Development: Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts
Sabina Alkire’s Background Paper for the United Nations Human Development Report
Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing
This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom, or the extent to which a set of options offers a decision maker real opportunities to achieve. Three cases are investigated: no preferences, a single preference, and plural preferences. The three co the cardinality relation, the indirect utility relation, and the effective freedom relation [...]
Notes on Effective Freedom
This paper presents an intuitive approach for comparing opportunity sets in freedom they offer. The decision maker faces a range of scenarios, here modeled as a collection of possible preference orderings over alternatives. One set is said to have greater effective freedom if, for each preference ordering, it contains an alternative that dominates all the [...]
Comparing Economic Mobility with Heterogeneity Indices: an Application to Education in Peru
The long literature on intergenerational transmission of well-being has largerly been driven by concerns for inequality of opportunity and the persistence of low levels of wellbeing among certain social groups.A comparative strand of this literature seeks to compare indicators of these transmission mechanisms, i.e. mobility regimes, across societies, regions or time. In this paper I [...]
Recuento y Medición Multidimensional de la Pobreza
Este trabajo propone una nueva metodología para la medición multidimensional de la pobreza que consiste en (i) un método de identificación ρk que extiende los enfoques tradicionales de intersección y unión, y (ii) una clase de mediciones de pobreza M αque satisface una variedad de propiedades deseables, incluyendo la descomponibilidad. El paso de identificación que [...]