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| Title: | | The measurement of time and income poverty  |
| Authors: | | Zacharias, Ajit |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper, Levy Economics Institute 690 |
| Abstract: | | Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses sufficient time for household production to enable it to reproduce itself as a unit. Several authors have questioned the validity of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I critically review the alternative approaches within a unified framework to highlight the commonalities and relative merits of individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities in the division of household labor and briefly discuss its uses in thinking about antipoverty policies. |
| Subjects: | | time poverty household production gender disparities |
| JEL: | | B54 I32 J16 J22 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
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