Reproducibility package for Too Young to Die: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality
Overview
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.
Reproducibility Package
| Name | URL |
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| Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Repository name | URI |
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| AEA Data and Code Repository | https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/aea |
Reproducibility
There is an overall readme file in the root directory of the package. In the directory Code, there is a separate readme file containing instructions for how to run the do files.
Data
All data is public and contained in the (external) reproducibility package.
Description
| Author | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Marie Baland | DEFIPP, University of Namur | jean-marie.baland@unamur.be |
| Guilhem Cassan | EFIPP, University of Namur | guilhem.cassan@unamur.be |
| Benoit Decerf | DEFIPP, University of Namur | benoit.decerf@unamur.be |
| Agency Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Yiyang Luo | RA |
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.
2021-10
Scope and coverage
| Location | Code |
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| World | WLD |
Disclaimer
The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/the World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.
Access and rights
| Name | URI |
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| Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Information on metadata
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
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| Krestel | CK | World Bank |
2023-07-25
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