Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences by Author "D'Ambrosio, Conchita"

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  • Deprivation and Social Exclusion 

    Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; PERAGINE, Vito (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)
    Social exclusion manifests itself in the lack of an individual’s access to functionings as compared to other members of society. Thus, the concept is closely related to deprivation. We view deprivation as having two basic determinants: the lack of ...

  • Dynamic Measures of Individual Deprivation 

    Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
    We introduce and axiomatize a one-parameter class of individual deprivation measures. Motivated by a suggestion of Runciman, we modify Yitzhaki’s index by multiplying it by a function that is interpreted as measuring the part of deprivation generated ...

  • A Generalized Index of Fractionalization 

    Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; LA FERRARA, Eliana (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-01)
    The goal of this paper is to contribute to the economic literature on ethnic and cultural diversity by proposing a new index that is informationally richer and more flexible than the commonly used ‘ethno-linguistic fractionalization’ (ELF) index. We ...

  • Intertemporal Material Deprivation 

    Bossert, Walter; Ceriani, Lidia; Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-06)
    Individual well-being is multidimensional and various aspects of the quality of life need to be jointly considered in its measurement. The axiomatic literature on the subject has proposed many indices of multidimensional poverty and deprivation ...

  • Measuring Economic Insecurity 

    Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
    We provide a systematic treatment of the notion of economic insecurity, assuming that an individual’s sentiment of insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past. We think of wealth as a comprehensive variable ...

  • Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation 

    Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-08)
    We examine the measurement of multidimensional poverty and material deprivation following the counting approach. In contrast to earlier contributions, dimensions of well-being are not forced to be equally important but different weights can be assigned ...

  • Poverty and Time 

    Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-03)
    We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual intertemporal poverty measures ...

  • Proximity-Sensitive Individual Deprivation Measures 

    Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-12)
    We propose and characterize a generalization of the classical linear index of individual deprivation based on income shortfalls. Unlike the original measure, our class allows for increases in the income of a higher-income individual to have a ...

  • Reference Groups and Individual Deprivation 

    Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)
    We provide an axiomatization of Yitzhaki’s index of individual deprivation. Our result differs from an earlier characterization due to Ebert and Moyes in the way the reference group of an individual is represented in the model. Ebert and Moyes require ...