TY - JOUR
T1 - “Too Young to Die”
T2 - Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality†
AU - Baland, Jean Marie
AU - Cassan, Guilhem
AU - Decerf, Benoit
N1 - Funding Information:
* 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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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118644418&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1257/app.20200122
DO - 10.1257/app.20200122
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118644418
SN - 1945-7790
VL - 13
SP - 226
EP - 257
JO - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
JF - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
IS - 4
ER -
