Vulnerability and household dynamics: Conceptual and empirical issues for Thailand and Vietnam

脆弱性和家庭动态：泰国和越南的概念和实证问题

• 批准号: 25309621
• 负责人: Professor Stephan Klasen, Ph.D. (†)
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und Entwicklungsökonomik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-31 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/25309621?language=en
• 关键词: Vulnerability; household; dynamics; Conceptual; empirical

Traditional poverty assessments, which can only present a static picture of poverty, often miss dynamic aspects of the situation. Research in economic development is, therefore, rapidly moving beyond static poverty measures to include aspects of risks, shocks, and vulnerability. This effort has lead to numerous definitions and measurements focusing on different dimensions of vulnerability, which have been applied in various empirical settings. What is largely missing is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the existing definitions and methods that would allow the development of conceptually sound and empirically relevant measures. The major objective of this project is to work towards the development of sound and empirically tractable measures of vulnerability that also take into account the endogeneity of household structures as well as intra-household dynamics. This work will, first of all, provide an input to design a specialized household survey that allows for a better analysis of vulnerability than that from currently available surveys. Here, the role of changing household structure and intra-household dynamics on vulnerability to poverty will be a specific focus of the empirical work. Furthermore, the output of this project will form an important basis for the work of other projects within the research unit, which focus on specific aspects and countries.

传统的贫困评估只能呈现贫困的静态图景，往往错过了贫困状况的动态方面。因此，经济发展研究正在迅速超越静态贫困衡量标准，纳入风险、冲击和脆弱性等方面。这项工作导致了许多针对脆弱性不同维度的定义和测量，这些定义和测量已应用于各种经验环境中。很大程度上缺少的是对现有定义和方法的全面比较分析，以便制定概念上合理且经验相关的措施。该项目的主要目标是努力制定合理的、经验上易于处理的脆弱性衡量标准，同时考虑到家庭结构的内生性以及家庭内部的动态。首先，这项工作将为设计专门的家庭调查提供输入，以便比现有调查更好地分析脆弱性。在这里，家庭结构的变化和家庭内部动态对贫困脆弱性的作用将是实证工作的具体重点。此外，该项目的成果将成为研究单位内其他项目工作的重要基础，这些项目侧重于特定方面和国家。