An Agricultural Wealth Index for Multidimensional Wealth Assessments
An Agricultural Wealth Index for Multidimensional Wealth Assessments
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DOI：
10.1111/padr.12367
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发表时间：
2020-10-30
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2.5
通讯作者：
Vizireanu, Mariya
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作者：
Hackman, Joseph;Hruschka, Daniel;Vizireanu, Mariya
社会科学家越来越多地使用基于资产的财富评分，如人口与健康调查(DHS)财富指数，以评估经济差距。然而，目前的指数主要衡量全球化市场经济中的财富，从而忽视了其他形式的繁荣，如农业活动的成功。使用对国土安全部财富指数标准估计的简单扩展，我们描述了估计农业财富指数(AWI)的程序，该指数通过捕捉家庭在农业活动中的成功来补充基于市场的财富指数。我们将这一程序应用于来自40多个国家的129项国土安全部调查的家庭数据，这些调查具有足够的土地和牲畜数据，以估计可靠和一致的AWI。我们使用成人和儿童的成长基准来评估AWI的结构效度。这一替代的财富衡量标准为理解财富不平等的原因和后果，以及不同财富层面的成功如何为健康和福祉创造不同的社会机会和制约因素提供了新的机会。
Social scientists have increasingly used asset-based wealth scores, like the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) wealth index, to assess economic disparities. However, current indices primarily capture wealth in globalized market economies, thus ignoring other forms of prosperity, such as success in agricultural activities. Using a simple extension to the standard estimation of the DHS wealth index, we describe procedures for estimating an agricultural wealth index (AWI) that complements market-based wealth indices by capturing household success in agricultural activities. We apply this procedure to household data from 129 DHS surveys from over 40 countries with sufficient land and livestock data to estimate a reliable and consistent AWI. We assess the construct validity of the AWI using benchmarks of growth in both adults and children. This alternative measure of wealth provides new opportunities for understanding the causes and consequences of wealth inequality, and how success along different dimensions of wealth creates different social opportunities and constraints for health and well-being.