This paper surveys the small branch of welfare economics that studies indicators combining poverty and mortality. The paper distinguishes two reasons for constructing such indicators. The first reason is to perform multidimensional well-being comparisons. For this purpose, mortality has (negative) intrinsic value. The key question relates to the trade-off that the indicator makes between poverty and mortality, that is, between the quality and quantity...
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2022/05/16
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS10042
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2022/05/16
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Normative Indicators Combining Poverty and Mortality : A Survey