A distribution-free test for deprivation dominance |
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| Authors: | Kuan Xu L. Osberg |
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| Affiliation: | a Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, hali, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The Raw1sian perspective on social policy pays particular attentionto the least advantaged members of society, but how should "the least advantaged" be identified? The concept of deprivation dominance operationalizes in part the Rawlsian evaluation of the welfare of the least advantaged members of society, but a statistical procedure for testing deprivation dominance is needed. In this paper, we construct a new distribution-free test for deprivation dominance and apply i t to Canadian income survey data |
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| Keywords: | deprivation profile deprivation dominance poverty welfare asymptotic distribution statistical test JEL Classification:C12 I32 |
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