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

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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 originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)226-257
Nombre de pages32
journalAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Volume13
Numéro de publication4
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 2021

Financement

* 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.

Bailleurs de fondsNuméro du bailleur de fonds
Excellence of Science
European Orthodontic SocietyO020918F
European Orthodontic Society
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique F.R.S.-FNRS33665820
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique F.R.S.-FNRS

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