10.1184/R1/6492368.v1 Nicole Hassoun Nicole Hassoun S. Subramanian S. Subramanian On Some Problems of Variable Population Poverty Comparisons Carnegie Mellon University 2010 Philosophy 2010-01-01 00:00:00 Journal contribution https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/journal_contribution/On_Some_Problems_of_Variable_Population_Poverty_Comparisons/6492368 This note demonstrates that the property of Replication Invariance, generally considered to be an innocuous requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable- population contexts, is incompatible with other plausible variable-population axioms in the presence of specific canonical fixed-population axioms.