Héctor Nájera
Biographic Data
| ID | 270262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Héctor Nájera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Héctor |
| FAMILY NAME | Nájera |
| SIGNATURE | NÁJERA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3838-5714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Bayesian Approach for Valid and Credible Inferences on the 2010–2020 Changes in Multidimensional Poverty in Mexico at Municipal Level
Making probabilistic comparisons about changes in multidimensional poverty at the small-area level over time and between municipalities is an essential goal. Statistical comparisons require information about both the mean and variance (uncertainty) of the estimated prevalence of poverty. The official municipal-level poverty figures in Mexico have been produced using an unconventional bottom-up approach designed to meet multiple information needs …
The scope of consensual deprivation indices for Mexico
Relative deprivation theory has been successfully and consistently applied for measuring poverty in many developed countries and to less extent in developing countries. This study uses data from two rounds from the ENCOVID19 survey and structural equation modelling to analyse from an empirical perspective the scope of the relative deprivation theory and the consensual approach to measure poverty in Mexico. The study employs an array of latent var…
What we talk when we talk about measurement in poverty research
It is hardly contentious to assert that measuring concepts is an important aspect of scientific and practical research. However, there seems to be some degree of confusion nowadays regarding what is meant by measurement in poverty research. It is obvious from these exchanges that different notions of central terms in the debate are being held (reliability, validity, measurement error, measurement model) to the detriment of common understanding. T…
Medición de pobreza en América Latina
El enfoque de privación relativa para la medición de la pobreza tiene poco más de cuatro décadas de desarrollos teórico-metodológicos sostenidos. Sin embargo, estos avances apenas se conocen en América Latina. Mucho menos quedan claras las posibles ventajas que ofrece la perspectiva de privación relativa sobre las tradiciones más populares de medición de pobreza, como son el enfoque de necesidades básicas insatisfechas o la medición de pobreza po…
On distinguishing food insecurity levels with the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale
Patterns of Womenʼs exposure to psychological violence
This study confirms the three-class pattern but suggests some differences across countries. and regions. We suggest cut points distinguishing violent from non-violent acts and demarcating levels of severity for future study. Findings offer evidence-based guidance to rectify challenges
A Monte Carlo Study of Some Empirical Methods to Find the Optimal Poverty Line in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
A key problem in multidimensional poverty measurement is how to identify the optimal poverty line, or threshold value, in order to split the ‘poor’ and ‘not poor’ groups. Intersection approaches aim to set a cut-point k for deprivation distribution and a cut-point Z for income/expenditure distributions. Union approaches require a unique k threshold for the combined distribution of income and deprivation and measures based only on the deprivation …
Un año de contagio municipal por el Sars-CoV-2 en México
Este artículo complementa y profundiza los resultados de una investigación anterior sobre el papel que desempeña la estructura social en el volumen de contagios en los municipios del país. Se empleó información quincenal durante 12 meses en México a nivel municipal. El análisis utilizó primero un modelo jerárquico de secciones cruzadas y después se incorporó la proximidad geográfica en un modelo bayesiano para explicar la difusión de la covid-19.…
Relative deprivation and the differential effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the poor in Mexico
One of the main challenges to studying the effects of the pandemic on poverty has been the lack of adequate data. Very few countries have short-term poverty data and most official surveys are rather rigid and were incapable of adding any special modules to jointly study COVID-19 and poverty. Furthermore, many poverty measures rely on indicators of unsatisfied basic needs (UBN) that, albeit useful to characterise exclusion from essential services,…
The use of the consensual approach for the improvement of existing multidimensional poverty data in Latin America
This article aims at contributing to the current literature on poverty data limitations and measurement by discussing the process for producing the first multidimensional poverty measure based on the consensual approach for the City of Buenos Aires. The results show a remarkable level of consensus about the necessities of life in the twenty-first century, underline the importance of generating more suitable indicators of deprivation and show that…
Reply to Santos and Colleagues ‘The Importance of Reliability in the Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America (MPI-LA)’
We thank Santos and her colleagues for their comments and welcome debate about the best ways to improve the measurement of multidimensional poverty in Latin America. While we agree with many of the points that have been raised, there remain some fundamental areas of disagreement. Four main issues have been raised regarding our work, so we will first summarise our position and then address each issue in turn. We fundamentally disagree with the arg…
The Importance of Reliability and Construct Validity in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
The empirical properties of a multidimensional poverty index require robust assessment. However, poverty research is yet to systematically implement measurement theories and practices that have been proven to be successful in other fields. Measurement theory has been developed over more than 100 years to produce indexes that are scientific (falsifiable) in that researchers put under scrutiny whether their value judgements and assumptions result i…
Within-country migration and obesity dynamics
Both exposure to urban environments and migration are associated with higher odds of obesity. Expanding the characterization of within-country migration dynamics provides a better insight into the relationship between duration of exposure to urban settings and obesity
Reliability, Population Classification and Weighting in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Attitudes towards domestic violence in 49 low- and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Violence against women by an intimate partner (DV) is a serious public health and human rights issue. Attitudes justifying DV strongly predict its perpetration and victimisation. This paper presents gendered ecological analyses of the societal acceptance of DV in 49 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across geographical regions. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We utilised data from 49 Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2005 …
Towards an EU measure of child deprivation
This paper proposes a new measure of child material and social deprivation (MSD) in the European Union (EU) which includes age appropriate child-specific information available from the thematic deprivation modules included in the 2009 and 2014 waves of the "EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions" (EU-SILC). It summarises the main results of the in-depth analysis of these two datasets, identifies an optimal set of robust children MSD items …
Multiple Deprivation, Severity and Latent Sub-Groups
Material deprivation is represented in different forms and manifestations. Two individuals with the same deprivation score (i.e. number of deprivations), for instance, are likely to be unable to afford or access entirely or partially different sets of goods and services, while one individual may fail to purchase clothes and consumer durables and another one may lack access to healthcare and be deprived of adequate housing . As such, the number of…
Reliability, Population Classification and Weighting in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Towards an EU measure of child deprivation
This paper proposes a new measure of child material and social deprivation (MSD) in the European Union (EU) which includes age appropriate child-specific information available from the thematic deprivation modules included in the 2009 and 2014 waves of the "EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions" (EU-SILC). It summarises the main results of the in-depth analysis of these two datasets, identifies an optimal set of robust children MSD items …
Multiple Deprivation, Severity and Latent Sub-Groups
Material deprivation is represented in different forms and manifestations. Two individuals with the same deprivation score (i.e. number of deprivations), for instance, are likely to be unable to afford or access entirely or partially different sets of goods and services, while one individual may fail to purchase clothes and consumer durables and another one may lack access to healthcare and be deprived of adequate housing . As such, the number of…
The use of the consensual approach for the improvement of existing multidimensional poverty data in Latin America
This article aims at contributing to the current literature on poverty data limitations and measurement by discussing the process for producing the first multidimensional poverty measure based on the consensual approach for the City of Buenos Aires. The results show a remarkable level of consensus about the necessities of life in the twenty-first century, underline the importance of generating more suitable indicators of deprivation and show that…
Towards an EU measure of child deprivation
This paper proposes a new measure of child material and social deprivation (MSD) in the European Union (EU) which includes age appropriate child-specific information available from the thematic deprivation modules included in the 2009 and 2014 waves of the "EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions" (EU-SILC). It summarises the main results of the in-depth analysis of these two datasets, identifies an optimal set of robust children MSD items …
Multiple Deprivation, Severity and Latent Sub-Groups
Material deprivation is represented in different forms and manifestations. Two individuals with the same deprivation score (i.e. number of deprivations), for instance, are likely to be unable to afford or access entirely or partially different sets of goods and services, while one individual may fail to purchase clothes and consumer durables and another one may lack access to healthcare and be deprived of adequate housing . As such, the number of…
Attitudes towards domestic violence in 49 low- and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Violence against women by an intimate partner (DV) is a serious public health and human rights issue. Attitudes justifying DV strongly predict its perpetration and victimisation. This paper presents gendered ecological analyses of the societal acceptance of DV in 49 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across geographical regions. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We utilised data from 49 Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2005 …
Within-country migration and obesity dynamics
Both exposure to urban environments and migration are associated with higher odds of obesity. Expanding the characterization of within-country migration dynamics provides a better insight into the relationship between duration of exposure to urban settings and obesity
Reliability, Population Classification and Weighting in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Reply to Santos and Colleagues ‘The Importance of Reliability in the Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America (MPI-LA)’
We thank Santos and her colleagues for their comments and welcome debate about the best ways to improve the measurement of multidimensional poverty in Latin America. While we agree with many of the points that have been raised, there remain some fundamental areas of disagreement. Four main issues have been raised regarding our work, so we will first summarise our position and then address each issue in turn. We fundamentally disagree with the arg…
The Importance of Reliability and Construct Validity in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
The empirical properties of a multidimensional poverty index require robust assessment. However, poverty research is yet to systematically implement measurement theories and practices that have been proven to be successful in other fields. Measurement theory has been developed over more than 100 years to produce indexes that are scientific (falsifiable) in that researchers put under scrutiny whether their value judgements and assumptions result i…
The use of the consensual approach for the improvement of existing multidimensional poverty data in Latin America
This article aims at contributing to the current literature on poverty data limitations and measurement by discussing the process for producing the first multidimensional poverty measure based on the consensual approach for the City of Buenos Aires. The results show a remarkable level of consensus about the necessities of life in the twenty-first century, underline the importance of generating more suitable indicators of deprivation and show that…
Medición de pobreza en América Latina
El enfoque de privación relativa para la medición de la pobreza tiene poco más de cuatro décadas de desarrollos teórico-metodológicos sostenidos. Sin embargo, estos avances apenas se conocen en América Latina. Mucho menos quedan claras las posibles ventajas que ofrece la perspectiva de privación relativa sobre las tradiciones más populares de medición de pobreza, como son el enfoque de necesidades básicas insatisfechas o la medición de pobreza po…
On distinguishing food insecurity levels with the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale
Patterns of Womenʼs exposure to psychological violence
This study confirms the three-class pattern but suggests some differences across countries. and regions. We suggest cut points distinguishing violent from non-violent acts and demarcating levels of severity for future study. Findings offer evidence-based guidance to rectify challenges
A Monte Carlo Study of Some Empirical Methods to Find the Optimal Poverty Line in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
A key problem in multidimensional poverty measurement is how to identify the optimal poverty line, or threshold value, in order to split the ‘poor’ and ‘not poor’ groups. Intersection approaches aim to set a cut-point k for deprivation distribution and a cut-point Z for income/expenditure distributions. Union approaches require a unique k threshold for the combined distribution of income and deprivation and measures based only on the deprivation …
Un año de contagio municipal por el Sars-CoV-2 en México
Este artículo complementa y profundiza los resultados de una investigación anterior sobre el papel que desempeña la estructura social en el volumen de contagios en los municipios del país. Se empleó información quincenal durante 12 meses en México a nivel municipal. El análisis utilizó primero un modelo jerárquico de secciones cruzadas y después se incorporó la proximidad geográfica en un modelo bayesiano para explicar la difusión de la covid-19.…
Relative deprivation and the differential effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the poor in Mexico
One of the main challenges to studying the effects of the pandemic on poverty has been the lack of adequate data. Very few countries have short-term poverty data and most official surveys are rather rigid and were incapable of adding any special modules to jointly study COVID-19 and poverty. Furthermore, many poverty measures rely on indicators of unsatisfied basic needs (UBN) that, albeit useful to characterise exclusion from essential services,…
What we talk when we talk about measurement in poverty research
It is hardly contentious to assert that measuring concepts is an important aspect of scientific and practical research. However, there seems to be some degree of confusion nowadays regarding what is meant by measurement in poverty research. It is obvious from these exchanges that different notions of central terms in the debate are being held (reliability, validity, measurement error, measurement model) to the detriment of common understanding. T…
The scope of consensual deprivation indices for Mexico
Relative deprivation theory has been successfully and consistently applied for measuring poverty in many developed countries and to less extent in developing countries. This study uses data from two rounds from the ENCOVID19 survey and structural equation modelling to analyse from an empirical perspective the scope of the relative deprivation theory and the consensual approach to measure poverty in Mexico. The study employs an array of latent var…
A Bayesian Approach for Valid and Credible Inferences on the 2010–2020 Changes in Multidimensional Poverty in Mexico at Municipal Level
Making probabilistic comparisons about changes in multidimensional poverty at the small-area level over time and between municipalities is an essential goal. Statistical comparisons require information about both the mean and variance (uncertainty) of the estimated prevalence of poverty. The official municipal-level poverty figures in Mexico have been produced using an unconventional bottom-up approach designed to meet multiple information needs …
Income, Poverty, and Inequality (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Poverty (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works)