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Measuring Economic Insecurity with Stata

11 April 2026 administrator

Working Paper 2026-692

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce and describe the economic_insecurity package in Stata, containing the economic_insecurity, ei_abs, and ei_rel commands. The commands calculate the measures according to the economic insecurity indices characterized in Bossert et al. (2023) and Bossert and Dâ€™Ambrosio (2024).

Authors: Federico Fiorani, Vito De Sandi.

Keywords: economic insecurity, Stata, economic_insecurity, ei_abs, ei_rel

JEL: C43, C87, D63

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