International comparisons of poverty intensity: Index decomposition and bootstrap inference

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-81

  Osberg, Lars ^a   Kuan, Xu ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; POVERTY;

EID: 0342369588     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/146356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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