Lucio Esposito

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title = {Economic well-being and self-placements on a left-right scale: Evidence from undergraduate students in seven countries},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Ulrike Theuerkauf},

doi = {10.1080/13569317.2021.2003974},

issn = {1356-9317},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Political Ideologies},

volume = {29},

number = {1},

pages = {98–120},

publisher = {Taylor and Francis},

abstract = {Despite its conceptual and empirical ambiguities, the Left-Right distinction of political preferences is a widely used tool in academic debates on voting and party behaviour, coalition formation and political culture. In a novel contribution to scholarship on the social construction of ideological identities, we investigate the context-dependent nature of the association between different conceptualizations of economic well-being and political orientations along a Left-Right scale. Our theoretical framework distinguishes economic well-being into a materialist and post-materialist dimension, and derives its hypotheses from Social Modernization Theory. Using multivariate analyses with original survey data from 3,449 undergraduate students in Bolivia, Brazil, Italy, Kenya, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, our results show clear patterns and large effect sizes in the association between respondents’ macro-economic context and their micro-level ideological orientations. In non-high-income countries, respondents’ Left-Right self-placements correlate with a materialist conceptualization of economic well-being, which centres on assessments of their family’s real-life economic status. In high-income countries, by contrast, respondents’ Left-Right self-placements are associated with a post-materialist conceptualization of economic well-being that is based on normative judgements about inequality aversion.},

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title = {Economic inequality and depressive symptoms: An individual versus aggregate level analysis using Mexican survey data},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Adrián Villaseñor and Rowena Jacobs},

doi = {10.1136/jech-2020-214682},

issn = {0143-005X},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health},

volume = {76},

number = {1},

pages = {38–44},

publisher = {BMJ Publishing Group},

abstract = {Background: There is a lack of consensus on the relationship between economic inequality and mental health, which may be due to the measures of inequality used in empirical studies. We studied this relationship using individual and aggregate measures of economic inequality, and tested whether there is an interaction between the individual and the aggregate levels.Methods: We used data from a nationally representative Mexican health survey (Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrició},

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title = {Smoking habits in Mexico: Upward and downward comparisons of economic status},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Shatakshee Dhongde and Christopher Joseph Millett},

doi = {10.1111/rode.12774},

issn = {1363-6669},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-01},

journal = {Review of Development Economics},

volume = {25},

number = {3},

pages = {1558–1575},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {While experimental and behavioral economics have extensively studied the role of both upward and downward comparisons of economic status, the latter have been largely neglected in secondary data studies. The scarce existing evidence shows mixed results and is essentially limited to analyses of subjective well-being in high-income countries. Using nationally representative data from Mexico with almost 45,000 personal records, we disentangle the role of absolute wealth, relative deprivation, and relative affluence as explanatory variables for smoking behavior. We find robust evidence of greater smoking at higher levels of absolute achievement and relative deprivation and lower smoking at higher levels of relative affluence. Results hold for a variety of indicators of smoking habits, reflecting both smoking prevalence and intensity. Compared to men, we find that women tend to have stronger associations between the three facets of economic status and smoking prevalence. Results are robust to the use of alternative functional forms and reference groups for the measurement of relative deprivation and relative affluence.},

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title = {What gets them going? The effects of activation policies on personal change processes of unemployed youth},

author = {Verena Niyadurupola and Lucio Esposito},

doi = {10.1080/13639080.2021.1953694},

issn = {1363-9080},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-01},

journal = {Journal of Education and Work},

volume = {34},

number = {4},

pages = {590–609},

publisher = {Brill},

abstract = {Activation policies are widely adopted to encourage labour market participation of unemployed youth, and yet they are poorly understood and monitored with regard to the causal mechanisms unfolding through their implementation. Activation schemes are often based on the carrot-and-stick logic informed by microeconomic job search theory, but activation occurs through processes which are far more complex and comprises elements of career identity and capability development, among others. This paper is the first to provide an in-depth exploration of the processes of attitudinal and behavioural change experienced by unemployed youth over the course of their participation in different activation programmes. Seven phases of change emerged from the analysis, namely vocational availability, self-testing, self-knowledge, self-confidence, goal-orientation, vocational activity and perseverance. For each of these phases, we identify drivers of change from both within and outside the intervention sphere, and discuss them in their implications for research and practice.},

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title = {Review of: Measuring Poverty Around the World, Anthony B. Atkinson.},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Blanca Zuluaga},

doi = {10.1017/S0266267120000255},

issn = {0266-2671},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-01},

journal = {Economics and Philosophy},

volume = {37},

number = {1},

pages = {156–161},

publisher = {Cambridge University Press},

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title = {The Importance of Being Earliest: Birth order and educational outcomes along the socioeconomic ladder in Mexico},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Sunil Kumar and Adrian Villasenor Lopez},

doi = {10.1007/s00148-019-00764-3},

issn = {0933-1433},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-07-01},

journal = {Journal of Population Economics},

volume = {33},

number = {3},

pages = {1069–1099},

publisher = {Springer},

abstract = {We study the effect of birth order on educational outcomes in Mexico using 2 million observations from the 2010 Census. We find that the effect of birth order is negative, and a variety of endogeneity and robustness checks suggest a causal interpretation of this finding. We then examine whether these effects vary across households’ economic status, and we find significant heterogeneity across absolute as well as relative standards of living, operationalized as household wealth and relative deprivation. Finally, we find that firstborns’ advantage is amplified when they are male, and in particular when other siblings are female.},

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title = {The economic gradient of obesity in Mexico: Independent predictive roles of absolute and relative wealth by gender},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Adrián Villaseñor and Enrique Cuevas Rodríguez and Christopher Millett},

doi = {10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112870},

issn = {0277-9536},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-04-01},

journal = {Social Science & Medicine},

volume = {250},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {Despite the vast literature on the economic gradient of obesity, no study investigates the independent predictive roles of absolute and relative standards of living using a large nationally representative adult sample. This gap limits our ability to discern ‘material’ and ‘psychosocial’ pathways to obesity as well as our understanding of the role played by economic inequality in the growing obesity epidemic. Using a large and nationally representative Mexican dataset, we find that absolute wealth and relative deprivation are independently related to obesity, and that such relationships are patterned by sex. Absolute wealth predicts body mass index as well as abdominal obesity according to an inverted-U shape for both sexes, and more markedly so for females. Relative deprivation predicts higher body mass index for females and higher waist circumference for both sexes, with highly relatively deprived females being 24.29% (95% CI [24.26, 24.31]) more likely to be obese and 34.46% (95% CI [34.40,34.53]) more likely to be abdominal obese, and highly relatively deprived males being 14.91% (95% CI [14.88,14.93] more likely to be abdominal obese. Our results offer a new perspective on the economic gradient of obesity and highlight the potential impact of economic inequality, especially for women. Greater awareness of the independent and sex-specific roles of the absolute and relative facets of economic status is needed to better understand and address the obesity epidemic.},

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title = {Eliciting, applying and exploring multidimensional welfare weights: evidence from the field},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti},

doi = {10.1111/roiw.12407},

issn = {0034-6586},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-11-01},

journal = {Review of Income and Wealth},

volume = {65},

number = {S1},

pages = {S204–S227},

publisher = {Wiley},

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.},

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title = {Relative deprivation and school enrolment: Evidence from Mexico},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Adrián Villaseñor},

doi = {10.1111/roiw.12344},

issn = {0034-6586},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-03-01},

journal = {Review of Income and Wealth},

volume = {65},

number = {1},

pages = {166–186},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {Using a large dataset (2.9 million households), we provide solid evidence of relative deprivation as being a negative correlate of school enrolment in Mexico, absolute standard of living being controlled for. This result is robust to a number of specifications, and to the use of linear and less than linear indices of relative deprivation. In addition, we find that marginal effects of relative deprivation are stronger at higher standards of living and for older children.},

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title = {Depression and economic status: evidence for non-linear patterns in women from Mexico},

author = {Paul Anand and Lucio Esposito and Adrián Villaseñor},

doi = {10.1080/09638237.2018.1521918},

issn = {0963-8237},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-12-01},

journal = {Journal of Mental Health},

volume = {27},

number = {6},

pages = {529–551},

publisher = {Informa Healthcare},

abstract = {Background: While social determinants of health perspective might lead to the hypothesis that higher economic achievements should be associated with better mental health, the evidence for adults is mixed and inconclusive.Aim: We test the role of wealth as a predictor of depressive symptoms controlling for a number of socio-demographic covariates, with a specific interest in gender-specific patterns.Methods: Using a nationally representative survey from Mexico (N = 44,618), we carry out multivariate regression analysis where we jointly model linear and quadratic measures of wealth to detect non-linear relations between depression and wealth.Results: The paper reports clear evidence of an inverted-U relationship between depressive symptoms and wealth for females, whereas the relationship for males tends to be linear and decreasing with wealth as expected (though weak and significant only in the upper part of the wealth distribution). Our findings are robust to alternative empirical strategies and we discuss potential explanations for this novel finding.Conclusion: The paper confirms that the association between standards of living and depression is complex, due to the mediating role of socio-demographic characteristics and the existence of non-linearities not fully explored in the literature.},

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title = {Chronic and late poverty as the main concerns in a twofold survey on intertemporal poverty preferences},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti},

doi = {10.1002/jid.3329},

issn = {0954-1748},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-10-01},

journal = {Journal of International Development},

volume = {30},

number = {7},

pages = {1096–1115},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {The increasing attention gained by the intertemporal aspect of poverty has led tothe flourishing of measurement tools which are informed by conflicting views on deprivation dynamics. We test individual preferences for alternative intertemporal poverty patterns using primary data from a sample of 1,083 undergraduate students and a heterogeneous sample of 310 adults in the Dominican Republic. For both samples the strongest concerns are chronic (rather than intermittent) and poverty in the second rather than in the first part of one’s life. Preferences are significantly affected by a duration-based between-subject randomly assigned treatment. Individual characteristics such as age and standard of living are significant predictors of respondents’ views.},

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title = {Wealth Inequality, Educational Environment and School Enrolment: Evidence from Mexico},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Adrián Villaseñor},

doi = {10.1080/00220388.2017.1385768},

issn = {0022-0388},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-08-01},

journal = {Journal of Development Studies},

volume = {54},

number = {11},

pages = {2095–2118},

publisher = {Routledge},

abstract = {Using data from the extended section of the 2010 Mexican census (2.9 million households), we study how school enrolment is associated with wealth inequality and with the educational environment the child is exposed to at the household and municipal levels. We provide robust evidence of wealth inequality as a negative predictor of school enrolment for children in primary, secondary and high school age ranges while a positive role is played by the educational environment. Through the introduction of interaction terms, we account for how economic and educational variables are intertwined at both the household and the municipal level, and we are able to illustrate the considerable heterogeneity in the role of adult education for households at different standards of living.},

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@article{810ee4150c56416daefe68cb07fd3b25,

title = {Does government spending affect income poverty? A meta-regression analysis},

author = {Edward Anderson and Maria Ana Jalles d'Orey and Maren Duvendack and Lucio Esposito},

doi = {10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.10.006},

issn = {0305-750X},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-03-01},

journal = {World Development},

volume = {103},

pages = {60–71},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {This paper presents the results of a meta-regression analysis of the relationship between government spending and income poverty, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Through a comprehensive search and screening process, we identify a total of 19 cross-country econometric studies containing 169 estimates of this relationship. We find that the size and direction of the estimated relationship are affected by a range of factors, most notably the composition of the sample used for estimation, the control variables included in the regression model, and the type of government spending. Overall, we find no clear evidence that higher government spending has played a significant role in reducing income poverty in low- and middle-income countries. This is consistent with the view that fiscal policy plays a much more limited redistributive role in developing countries, in comparison with OECD countries. In addition, we find that the relationship between government spending and poverty is on average less negative for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and more negative for countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, compared to other regions. We also find that the relationship is less negative for government consumption spending, in comparison with other sectors. Finally, we find some evidence indicating the possibility of publication bias.},

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title = {Relative deprivation: Measurement issues and predictive role for body image dissatisfaction},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Adrián Villaseñor},

doi = {10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.09.029},

issn = {0277-9536},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-11-01},

journal = {Social Science & Medicine},

volume = {192},

pages = {49–57},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {The study of how relative standing in the socioeconomic hierarchy affects health outcomes faces a number of challenges. Two critical issues are the choice of the indicator quantifying relative standard of living and the collinearity which typically arises when absolute standard of living is controlled for. We address these issues by taking into examination linear and concave measures of relative deprivation and by showing that collinearity can be lessened through manipulations of the measures’ formulae. Importantly, we argue that the two issues are intertwined and should be jointly considered by researchers. We illustrate the points above using nationally representative data from Mexico (N = 44,214) and studying relative deprivation as a predictor of body image dissatisfaction – a growing public health concern whose effects go well beyond eating disorders. Controlling for several individual characteristics, binary and multinomial logit regressions indicate relative deprivation as a risk factor for body image dissatisfaction. By conducting subsample analyses and by introducing an interaction term between gender and relative deprivation, we show evidence of a gender-based heterogeneity in the role of relative deprivation – which predicts feeling smaller than desired for both females and males and feeling larger than desired for females but not for males. This heterogeneity is discussed in the light of the different social pressures females and males face for slenderness and muscularity. Our evidence enriches the literature on socioeconomic gradients in health, pointing to an additional domain in which a low position in the socioeconomic ladder translates into greater likelihood of developing health problems and adopting health-compromising behaviors.},

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title = {Measuring health burden without discriminating against the disabled},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Nicole Hassoun},

doi = {10.1093/pubmed/fdw072},

issn = {1741-3842},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-09-01},

journal = {Journal of Public Health},

volume = {39},

number = {3},

pages = {633–639},

publisher = {Oxford University Press},

abstract = {This paper addresses an ethical implication of some health metrics used for evaluating population health, with particular reference to the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY). Specifically, the paper considers the concern that, such measures may discriminate against the disabled. An analysis of this problem is offered, alongside the formulation of three principles upon which an alternative measure is developed –the Ethically Adjusted Life Year (EALY).},

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@article{05295fa402af450cb63aceb50957f6a6,

title = {Does government spending affect income inequality? A meta-regression analysis},

author = {Edward Anderson and Maria Ana Jalles D'Orey and Maren Duvendack and Lucio Esposito},

doi = {10.1111/joes.12173},

issn = {0950-0804},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-09-01},

journal = {Journal of Economic Surveys},

volume = {31},

number = {4},

pages = {961–987},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {In this paper findings of a meta-regression analysis are presented exploring the effects of government spending on income inequality, with a particular focus on low and middle income countries. We identify a total of 84 separate studies containing over 900 estimates of the effect of one or more measures of spending on one or more measures of income inequality. The results show some evidence of a moderate negative relationship between government spending and income inequality, which is strongest for social welfare and other social spending, and when using the Gini coefficient or the top income share as the measure of inequality. However, both the size and direction of the estimated relationship between government spending and income inequality is affected by a range of other factors, including the control variables and estimation method used. We also find evidence of publication bias, in that negative estimates of the relationship appear to be under-reported in the literature.},

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@article{08a26d30092148779ca83b01193ab7c3,

title = {The impact of government policies on income inequality and the translation of growth into income poverty reduction: protocol for two systematic reviews},

author = {Edward Anderson and Maria Jalles D'Orey and Maren Duvendack and Lucio Esposito},

doi = {10.1080/19439342.2015.1105847},

issn = {1943-9342},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-12-01},

journal = {Journal of Development Effectiveness},

volume = {7},

number = {4},

pages = {484–498},

publisher = {Taylor and Francis},

abstract = {The eradication of poverty has been a central aim of international development for several decades, and the importance of reducing inequality is also increasingly accepted. This paper presents the protocols for two systematic reviews on the government policies and interventions that affect in-country income inequality and the translation of economic growth into reductions in income poverty. The paper describes the background to the reviews and the links between them, their aims and scope, the inclusion criteria, search strategy and synthesis options.},

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@article{98c0537258f8441e932fb482d0406dd3,

title = {Should fines depend on income? A questionnaire study on values and institutions},

author = {Kristof Bosmans and Lucio Esposito},

doi = {10.1628/093245615X14273596659080},

issn = {0932-4569},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-06-01},

journal = {Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics},

volume = {171},

number = {2},

pages = {355–371},

publisher = {JCB Mohr},

abstract = {How do we make sense of the cross-country heterogeneity in value judgments emerging from international surveys? Our study suggests that the answer needs to go beyond the adaptation of values to existing institutions and should tap into deeper beliefs. In our case, Finnish respondents do support their country's system of income-dependent fines more strongly than respondents in countries using a fixed fine system. However, they also hold different beliefs on the relationship between income and well-being and hence on the burdens imposed by fining offenders at different income levels. A further illustration is provided in the context of income taxation.},

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title = {The value of literacy practices},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Bereket Kebede and Bryan Maddox},

doi = {10.1080/03057925.2013.862019},

issn = {0305-7925},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-05-01},

journal = {Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education},

volume = {45},

number = {3},

pages = {363–380},

publisher = {Routledge},

abstract = {The concepts of literacy events and practices have received considerable attention in educational research and policy. In comparison, the question of value, that is, ‘which literacy practices do people most value?’ has been neglected. With the current trend of cross-cultural adult literacy assessment, it is increasingly important to recognise locally valued literacy practices. In this paper we argue that measuring preferences and weighting of literacy practices provides an empirical and democratic basis for decisions in literacy assessment and curriculum development and could inform rapid educational adaptation to changes in the literacy environment. The paper examines the methodological basis for investigating literacy values and its potential to inform cross-cultural literacy assessments. The argument is illustrated with primary data from Mozambique. The correlation between individual values and respondents’ socio-economic and demographic characteristics is explored.},

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@article{a04acf11ca9d463ead696af460f2237c,

title = {On the joint evaluation of absolute and relative deprivation},

author = {Edward Anderson and Lucio Esposito},

doi = {10.1007/s10888-013-9262-7},

issn = {1569-1721},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-09-01},

journal = {Journal of Economic Inequality},

volume = {12},

number = {3},

pages = {411–428},

publisher = {Springer},

abstract = {We lay out alternative ways of melding measures of absolute and relative deprivation in an index of overall deprivation, exploring the choices the analyst faces in this enterprise. The indices derived are used to answer two important empirical questions. First, did overall deprivation fall in the BRICS–Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa– between the early 1990s and late 2000s, alongside the fall in absolute deprivation? Second, what is the relationship between reductions in overall deprivation and economic growth? We show that the standard portrayal of the BRICS as economic success stories as well as the emphasis placed on economic growth in the reduction of deprivation must be qualified to some extent.},

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@article{41d02960f1cc48278e4bc01cd2abd31c,

title = {A cross-country analysis of perceived economic status and life satisfaction in high- and low-income countries},

author = {Laura Camfield and Lucio Esposito},

doi = {10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.018},

issn = {0305-750X},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-07-01},

journal = {World Development},

volume = {59},

pages = {212–223},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {What are the challenges posed by the analysis of self-reported life satisfaction and material wellbeing/hardship? We explore the complex relationship between objective and subjective indicators using primary data from two diverse sources—a questionnaire survey of 3883 undergraduate students in eight economically developed and developing countries and interviews with 310 adults in the Dominican Republic. Our findings underline the value of subjective data; at the same time, they stress the importance for development researchers of gaining a deeper understanding of what subjective data really tell us, alongside the need for a richer conceptualization of individual emotions and states of mind.},

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title = {Literacy practices and schooling: A case study from Mozambique},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Bereket Kebede and Bryan Maddox},

doi = {10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.04.011},

issn = {0305-750X},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-10-01},

journal = {World Development},

volume = {39},

number = {10},

pages = {1796–1807},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {A novel approach to the assessment of literacy is used to tackle the issue of effectiveness of years of schooling. The dichotomy inherent in the literacy rate is rejected in favor of a " practice-based" approach, which considers literacy as a multifaceted phenomenon as advocated in anthropological and economic research. Primary data collected in the poorest region in Mozambique suggest that years of schooling have a differentiated impact on acquired literacy practices of adults. Results that are robust to different specifications are reported. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.},

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title = {Exploring the absolutist vs relativist perception of poverty using a cross-country questionnaire survey},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Luca Corazzini and Francesca Majorano},

doi = {10.1016/j.joep.2009.10.007},

issn = {0167-4870},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-03-01},

journal = {Journal of Economic Psychology},

volume = {32},

number = {2},

pages = {273–283},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {Questionnaires eliciting the absolutist vs relativist perception of poverty are administered to 1941 undergraduate students in eight countries – Bolivia, Brazil, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. We find that the perception of poverty expressed by a large fraction of respondents exhibits both absolutist and relativist concerns, with the former components prevailing over the latter. High-income countries exhibit a significantly more pronounced relativist attitude. Personal characteristics such as past experience of material hardship and relative standard of living play a germane role in shaping respondents’ views.},

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@article{2b547f2617084c6a9b2377d2fb7c3b7a,

title = {New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index},

author = {Kristof Bosmans and Lucio Esposito and Peter Lambert},

doi = {10.1007/s00355-010-0473-6},

issn = {0176-1714},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-02-01},

journal = {Social Choice and Welfare},

volume = {36},

number = {2},

pages = {241–247},

publisher = {Springer},

abstract = {In this article, we examine some properties and extensions of a particular poverty index, which is already passingly familiar to poverty analysts. Our investigation leads to a new perspective on the family of additively decomposable and scale-invariant poverty indices and provides new insights into the class of poverty measures proposed by Foster et al. (Econometrica 52:761–766, 1984). Finally, our work leads to a clarification of the different roles of transfer properties and distribution sensitivity in poverty measurement.},

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title = {Poverty measurement: Prioritarianism, sufficiency and the ‘I’s of poverty},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Peter J. Lambert},

doi = {10.1017/S0266267111000022},

issn = {0266-2671},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

journal = {Economics and Philosophy},

volume = {27},

number = {2},

pages = {109–121},

publisher = {Cambridge University Press},

abstract = {The seminal contribution of Sen (1976) led to a new way to conceptualize and measure absolute poverty, by arguing for the need to ‘take note of the inequality among the poor’ (Sen 1976: 227). Since then, the ‘Inequality’ of poverty has become the third ‘I’ of poverty, which together with the ‘Incidence’ and the ‘Intensity’ of it constitute the dimensions deemed relevant for poverty evaluation. In this paper, we first argue that the interest in the third ‘I’ of poverty actually originates from a prioritarian (Parfit 1995) rather than an egalitarian attitude. Further, we illustrate the inability of the three ‘I's to fully comprise the criteria for the assessment of poverty which are de facto adopted by existing poverty indices. Some of them resolve distributional conflicts by following leximin, hence assigning a pivotal role to the worst off. We question the desirability of leximin, and conclude that giving absolute priority to the worst off is plausible only in cases where the latter has been identified by an exogenous threshold demarcating a significant difference in human suffering. Finally, we explore to what extent prioritarianism and the sufficiency argument of Frankfurt (1987), Crisp (2003) and Casal (2007) can help conceptualize giving absolute priority to individuals or groups indentified by exogenous (poverty and ultra-poverty) thresholds.},

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@article{02f6f24d96df425eae9ed1d66dce1f72,

title = {What principles should inform poverty indices? Insights from a cross-country survey},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Francesca Majorano},

doi = {10.1007/s00181-010-0370-y},

issn = {0377-7332},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Economics},

volume = {41},

number = {2},

pages = {387–420},

publisher = {Physica-Verlag},

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@article{7902213b78b0427f88a22c6bc483ea25,

title = {Multidimensional poverty: restricted and unrestricted hierarchy among poverty dimensions},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti},

doi = {10.1016/S1514-0326(10)60009-8},

issn = {1514-0326},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-12-01},

journal = {Journal of Applied Economics},

volume = {13},

number = {2},

pages = {181–204},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {The increasing interest in multidimensional poverty and well-being analysis has added complexity to the way these phenomena are conceptualized and measured. When multiple attributes are considered, a criterion determining the relative importance attached to the different dimensions has to be adopted. There has not been thus far in the literature a specific attempt to conceptualize the nature of the desired hierarchy among the selected poverty dimensions. The aim of this paper is to take the first step in this direction. We envisage two simple and highly intuitive ways in which such a hierarchical system can be understood, which we label restricted and unrestricted hierarchy. The analytical conditions allowing the incorporation of these into a poverty index are derived and their implications in terms of the understanding of poverty are discussed. An empirical application shows how the choice of the hierarchical scheme for poverty dimensions can lead to opposite conclusions on the poverty trend.},

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@article{1cd203224d3841fd91a8d491ad817428,

title = {Upper boundedness for the measurement of relative deprivation},

author = {Lucio Esposito},

doi = {10.1111/j.1475-4991.2010.00396.x},

issn = {0034-6586},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-09-01},

journal = {Review of Income and Wealth},

volume = {56},

number = {3},

pages = {632–639},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {A new index of relative deprivation is derived axiomatically. Thanks to an asymptotically concave individual contribution function, the new measure provides a sounder quantification to the concept of relative deprivation as conceptualized in the seminal work of Runciman (1966) and better reflects the sociological connotations of the phenomenon.},

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@article{051d6bd9a42b4b7cbe29d3facbb3a50c,

title = {A note on the Bourguignon–Fields class of poverty indices},

author = {Lucio Esposito and Peter Lambert},

doi = {10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.03.005},

issn = {0047-2727},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-08-01},

journal = {Journal of Public Economics},

volume = {93},

number = {7-8},

pages = {852–854},

publisher = {Elsevier},

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pubstate = {published},

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