Data and Code for: "Too young to die”. Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jean Marie Baland, Université de Namur; Guilhem Cassan, Université de Namur; Benoit Decerf, Université de Namur

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Baland, Jean Marie, Cassan, Guilhem, and Decerf, Benoit. Data and Code for: "Too young to die”. Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-09-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119941V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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
in a meaningful manner. These indices satisfy a number of desirable properties
unmet by all other measures combining early mortality and poverty. Moreover,
one of these measures is readily computable with available data and easily
interpretable. We show that omitting premature mortality leads to an under-
estimation of total deprivation in 2015 of at least 36% at the world level. At
the country level, the evolution of deprivation may differ substantially from the
picture obtained when the impact of premature mortality is ignored.


Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Deprivation Measurement; Premature Mortality; Composite Indexes
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
      I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

Methodology

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