Eliciting, applying and exploring multidimensional welfare weights: evidence from the field

Esposito, Lucio and Chiappero-Martinetti, Enrica (2019) Eliciting, applying and exploring multidimensional welfare weights: evidence from the field. Review of Income and Wealth, 65 (S1). S204-S227. ISSN 0034-6586

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Abstract

By combining primary data on dimension importance collected in the field from three different samples and nationally representative survey data from the Dominican Republic, we offer a twofold contribution. The first one comes from an unincentivized questionnaire experiment, where the significance of the treatment effect shows that life domains are valued differently in a poverty vs a well‐being framework. This poses important questions on the anatomy of dimension importance and on the use of weights in empirical analyses, and opens the door to what we call a “concordance paradox” related to the very essence of the constructs of poverty and well‐being. As a second contribution, we employ the sets of weights collected in the field to assess the trend of multidimensional poverty and well‐being in the country. We find that the picking one set of weights or another is not a trivial choice, as they lead to opposite assessment results.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: between-subject design,fieldwork,multidimensional poverty,weighting schemes,well-being,economics and econometrics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics
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Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2018 17:30
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2023 13:35
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69154
DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12407

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