This week, we will start the crash course on Welfare, Inequality and Poverty. I will upload the slides soon. Reference for the course are the following,
- Atkinson Measuring top incomes: Methodological issuesis
- Atkinson & Morelly Chartbook of economic inequality
- Burricand, Houdré & Seguin Les niveaux de vie en 2010
- Amiel & Cowell Thinking about Inequality
- Cowell Measurement of inequality
- Cowell Measuring Inequality
- Cowell & Flachaire Statistical methods for distributional analysis
- Duclos, & Abdelkrim Poverty and Equity: Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD.
- Foster An Axiomatic Characterization of the Theil Measure of Income Inequality
- Haughton & Khandker Handbook on Poverty and Inequality
- Houdré, Missègue & Seguin Inégalités de niveau de vie et pauvreté
- Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz & Stone Would you be happier if you were richer? A focusing illusion
- Lewis & Ulph Poverty, Inequality and Welfare
- Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Ravaillon Issues in Measuring and Modelling Poverty
- Sen From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality
- Sen Inequality Reexamined
See also Emmanuel Flachaire’s ECON-473 webpage, as well as Michel Lubrano’s notes. In the introductionary course, I will also mention Le Monde, 2012 (on poverty), with the pdf. An interesting video is based on Norton & Ariely, 2011
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