Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/160853 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 181
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
We derive the asymptotic sampling distribution of various estimators frequently used to order distributions in terms of poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as estimators of the curves used to infer stochastic dominance of any order. These curves can be used to determine whether poverty, inequality or social welfare is greater in one distribution than in another for general classes of indices. We also derive the sampling distribution of the maximal poverty lines (or income censoring thresholds) up to which we may confidently assert that poverty or social welfare is greater in one distribution than in another. The sampling distribution of convenient estimators for dual approaches to the measurement of poverty is also established. The statistical results are established for deterministic or stochastic poverty lines as well as for paired or independent samples of incomes. Our results are briefly illustrated using data for 6 countries drawn from the Luxembourg Income Study data bases.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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