A class of chronic poverty measures

By James E. Foster. 2007

228 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Stefan Dercon
2. T. Woldehanna
3. John Hoddinott
4. Cesar Calvo
5. Satya R. Chakravarty
6. Conchita D'Ambrosio
7. J. Greer
8. Walter Bossert

In Gender Studies

1. Stefan Dercon
2. Cesar Calvo
3. Conchita D'Ambrosio
4. Walter Bossert
5. Satya R. Chakravarty
6. John Hoddinott
7. S. Alkire
8. T. Woldehanna

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Stefan Dercon
2. James E. Foster
3. S. Alkire
4. Cesar Calvo
5. John Hoddinott
6. Conchita D'Ambrosio
7. Satya R. Chakravarty
8. Walter Bossert

Citations in the corpus

• Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement (2011, background): “This is a key motivation behind Alkire and Foster (2007, 2011).”
• Persistent poverty and children's cognitive development: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (2016, background): “…on poverty which makes the case that the effect of a period of poverty on an individual is likely to be different depending on whether this period of poverty was preceded by poverty or relative affluence (i.e. not in poverty); see Foster (2009), Bossert et al. (2012) and Dutta et al. (2013).”
• Growth and Chronic Poverty: Evidence from Rural Communities in Ethiopia (2012, background): “One definition of ‘chronic’ poverty is the head count of those poor at least half the time, in this case, three or more times below the poverty line (Foster, 2007).”
• Chronic Poverty and All that: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time (2007, methodology): “It is also close to the ideas behind Foster (2007) in this collection, with one crucial differences: we do not restrict this measure to be zero for those who experience a frequency of spells below the ‘chronic poverty’ threshold.”
• Poverty and time (2012, methodology): “While axiomatic discussions are provided in Calvo and Dercon (2007) and in Foster (2007) as well, characterizations are absent and, therefore, the axioms do not provide a justification for narrowing down the class of measures to those suggested in these papers because it is not established that…”
• The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later (2010, background): “Foster [59] employs the second definition given above, and regards as chronically poor a person who is in poverty no less than τ share of the time, where τ is a fixed number between 0 and 1.”
• Determinants, persistence, and dynamics of energy poverty: An empirical assessment using German household survey data (2021, background): “…second step, we follow the literature on income poverty dynamics and distinguish between chronic and transient energy poverty based on the count of periods that households spend in energy poverty (Baulch & Hoddinott, 2000; Finnie & Sweetman, 2003; Biewen, 2006; Foster, 2009; Foster & Santos, 2013).”