Essays on inequality, poverty and gender inequality, with applications to Turkey
(2018)
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- This PhD dissertation contributes to the literature on household economics and the measurement of poverty and inequality. The first chapter extends the generalized Yaari's dual theory of choice with multivariate risks providing an axiomatic definition for multidimensional quantiles. By taking advantage of the formal equivalence between the evaluation of risky prospects and the measurement of inequality, we show that our inequality averse multivariate decision functional can be interpreted as a social evaluation function for allocations of multiple attributes (such as income, health). The second chapter describes how to obtain a weighting scheme based on the revealed preferences of individuals in the Alkire and Foster's multidimensional poverty framework. These weights indicate the trade-offs between the dimensions of poverty. With application to Turkey, we show that individuals do not give equal importance to the dimensions, preference heterogeneity leads to weight heterogeneity and weights should be determined distinctly for each subgroup of the population. The third chapter analyses the extent of inequality within households in Turkey by inferring the share a woman would get as her private consumption from total household income, and examines the effect of the change in the default property regime in case of divorce on this share. It is shown that married women receive less than the equal share of total household income, and this share is higher for women who are affected by the new default regime.
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Bas, S. (2018). Essays on inequality, poverty and gender inequality, with applications to Turkey. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/56997