Deprivations Rarely Come Alone. Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Europe by Nicolai Suppa published by Review of Income and Wealth (8/2025).
This article proposes a framework to analyse micro-level dynamics inherent to multidimensional poverty measures. Specifically,I use differences in deprivation transition probabilities between multidimensionally poor and nonpoor people, to analyse howdeprivations couple over time. Advantages of this approach include that it (i) summarises relevant mechanisms, (ii) requires onlyshort-run panel data and (iii) is suitable for monitoring purposes. Using the European Union Statistics on Income and LivingConditions (EU-SILC) for 20+ countries over 2016–2020, I find that deprivations tend to couple over time. Implications includethat coordinated policy programmes seem critical to overcome entrenched and prevent future deprivations.
