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Deprivation can roughly be defined as the utility foregone because of not possessing the economic variable under consideration, here income. Deprivation is relative because people feel deprived by comparing themselves with persons who have higher incomes. In this chapter we are mainly concerned with interpretations and quantifications of alternative definitions of relative deprivation put forward by Runciman(1966).
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Chakravarty, S.R. (1990). The Measurement of Relative Deprivation. In: Ethical Social Index Numbers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75502-6_5
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