@inproceedings{Hardeweg2010Towards,
abstract = {Several measures of vulnerability to poverty  have been suggested in the literature. In practice, only little is known about the robustness of vulnerability comparisons based on these often quite specific measures. The theory of stochastic orders can be applied to shed some light on such issues. In the DFG research project "Impact of Shocks on the Vulnerability to Poverty: Consequences for Development of Emerging Southeast Asian Economies" (DFG FOR 756), an extensive panel survey was carried  out in six rural provinces of Thailand and Vietnam in 2007. We establish cumulative  distribution functions for income and consumption at the provincial level and search for stochastic dominance relations between these distributions. Our comparisons allow for  initial, but quite robust conclusions on welfare and provide benchmarks for assessing  the vulnerability to poverty in the research regions.},
address = {Frankfurt a. M.},
author = {Bernd Hardeweg and Andreas Wagener and Hermann Waibel},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {D31; I32; O15; 330},
language = {eng},
number = {D14-V4},
publisher = {Verein f\"{u}r Socialpolitik},
series = {Beitr\"{a}ge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins f\"{u}r Socialpolitik 2010: \"{O}konomie der Familie - Session: Empirical Studies in Development Economics},
title = {Towards comparative and aggregate vulnerability: An analysis of welfare distributions in rural areas in Thailand and Vietnam},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37541},
year = {2010}
}
