Testing for stochastic dominance up to a common relative poverty line
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Although a wide array of stochastic dominance tests exist for poverty measurement and identification, they assume the income distributions have independent poverty lines or a common absolute (fixed) poverty line. We propose a stochastic dominance test for comparing income distributions up to a common relative poverty line (i.e., some fraction of the pooled median). A Monte Carlo study demonstrates its superior performance over existing methods in terms of power. The test is then applied to some Canadian household survey data for illustration.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 5 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Econometrics |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Feb 2020 |
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