“Too Young to Die”: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality†

Jean Marie Baland; Guilhem Cassan; Benoit Decerf

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“Too Young to Die”: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality†

Jean Marie Baland, Guilhem Cassan, Benoit Decerf

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Most measures of deprivation concentrate on deprivation among the living population and, thus, ignore premature mortality. This omission leads to a severe bias in the evaluation of deprivation. We propose two different measures that combine information on poverty and premature mortality of a population. These measures are consistent and satisfy a number of desirable properties unmet by all other measures combining early mortality and poverty. Moreover, one measure is readily computable with available data and easily interpretable. We show that omitting premature mortality leads to an underestimation of total deprivation in 2015 of at least 36 percent at the world level.

langue originale	Anglais
Pages (de - à)	226-257
Nombre de pages	32
journal	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Volume	13
Numéro de publication	4
Les DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20200122
Etat de la publication	Publié - 2021

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* Baland: DEFIPP, University of Namur (email: [email protected]); Cassan: DEFIPP, University of Namur (email: [email protected]); Decerf: DEFIPP, University of Namur (email: benoit.decerf@ unamur.be). Seema Jayachandran was coeditor for this article. We express all our gratitude to Kristof Bosmans, Iker Cassan Brun, Francisco Ferreira, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Francois Maniquet, Erwin Ooghe, Paolo Piacquadio, Gregory Ponthiere, and Martin Van der Linden, and several anonymous referees for helpful discussions and/or comments. We are grateful to the audiences at University of Namur, INED, Paris School of Economics, KU Leuven, Université Saint-Louis, EDEEM Berlin, the Tinbergen Institute, and the EUDN conference in Bergen for providing insightful comments. We thank Yiyang Luo for her excellent research assistance. This work was supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique–FNRS under Grant 33665820. Research on this project was financially supported by the Excellence of Science (EOS) Research project of FNRS O020918F. All errors remain our own.

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