Equivalence Scales
Child poverty in Vietnam: using adult equivalence scales to estimate income poverty for different age groups
... The commonly used technique for the estimation of adult equivalence scales contains an implicit household income distribution. Therefore, we used these techniques to estimate child poverty and patterns of ...
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Semiparametric base-independent equivalence scales and the cost of children in Switzerland
... the equivalence scale equation on expenditures or is an artifact of restrictive parametric assumptions about the functional form of the demand ...of equivalence scales ...estimating ...
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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
... official equivalence scales and consumption-based country-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et ...the equivalence scale used. But the ...
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Equivalence Scales Based on Revealed Preference Consumption Expenditure Microdata The Case of West Germany
... of scales according to methodology reasons ...based equivalence scales in gernal: the revealed preference method - based on cross section (not on panel) data - neglects a possible changing of the ...
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Two Scales, One Methodology Expenditure Based Equivalence Scales for the United States and Germany
... appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic well- being income distribution, inequality or ...specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty ...
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The estimation of pensioner equivalence scales using subjective data
... As far as I am aware, this is the first study that estimates subjective and Engel equivalence scales on the same panel of households. The first two rows of Ta- ble 3 give estimates at the household level ...
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Health and the Marginal Utility of Consumption: Estimating Health State Dependence using Equivalence Scales
... Second, a disadvantage stemming from the use of subjective data is that of differential item functioning: different people interpret scales in different ways. A person who is very optimistic in general may be more ...
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Equivalence Scales and Costs of Children
... Weekly Incomes and Exl~enditures 1980 Household Types Used in the Analysis Cell Frecluencies for the hacomc Group/ Household Type Classification Percentage Distribution of Samples by Qua[r] ...
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Child Poverty in Large Families
... implied equivalence scales for families with ...an equivalence scale from a consensus of national ...their equivalence scale on the grounds that it is easy to estimate and close to the ...
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Inequality, Welfare, Household Composition and Prices: A Comparative Study on Australian and Canadian Data
... of equivalence scales choice on inequality; c) study the sensitivity of inequality to the choice of price indices and d) to investigate the effect of sample selections on ...
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An econometric analysis of household consumption patterns : a comparative study based on New Zealand and Italian household budget data : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD in Economics at Massey University
... Econometric studies of household expenditure enjoy considerable importance because of the usefulness of the estimated demand parameters in several policy issues. These range from the purely behavioral aspects of demand ...
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Vulnerability to poverty: An empirical comparison of alternative measures
... The summary statistics in Table 6 show how, on average, even if information is not as rich as in the other two countries, those households poor in 2004 were more vulnerable in 2002 than those non poor. According to the ...
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THE EQUIVALENCE OF TOEP FORMS
... forms equivalence have been ...the equivalence of the Medical Licensing Examination forms in 2003 and 2004 by employing the item response theory approach, the results of which indicated that the Medical ...
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Equivalence of multi-norms
... There is a natural notion of ‘equivalence’ of two multi-norms based on the same normed space, and we find it of interest to establish when various pairs of the known examples are indeed mutually equivalent. This ...
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The Equivalence of Religion and Conscience
... of religion to include any “act or a refusal to act that is substantially motivated by religious belief” without reference to sincerity of belief or the compulsory or central nature of t[r] ...
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On equivalence of graded rings
... In Section 2, we discuss the relation between this new concept and some related concepts given in [1 In Section 3, we give some properties of graded rings and see which of these are pres[r] ...
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Asymptotic equivalence and summability
... Thus, we form two sequences x and y such that x y and both satisfy the hypothesis in a, but SAx and SAy are not asymptotically equivalent if condition ii does not hold.. Let m be an arbi[r] ...
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Equivalence of Carter diagrams
... First of all, in this paper we will see that any Carter diagram with cycles of any length can be transformed into an equivalent Carter diagram with cycles of length 4. The equivalence of connection diagrams (and, ...
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The Equivalence of linear systems
... We show that two R-realisations of a K-matrix, where K is the field of fractions of the principal ideal domain R , are strictly system equivalent if and only if they are locally system e[r] ...
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Parsing and Derivational Equivalence
... With grammar regarded as analogous to logic, derivations are proofs; what we are advocat- ing is proof-reduction, and normal form proof; the invocation of these logical techniques adds a[r] ...
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