This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

Nauro Campos (University College London) will present his research co-authored with Fabrizio Coricelli (University of Siena, Paris School of Economics and CEPR) and Marco Frigerio (University of Siena) entitled The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income. Jarko Fidrmuc (Zeppelin...

We invite contributions from both senior and junior researchers that focus on the role of families in insuring individuals against downside risk. Potential topics include: - The role of households in insuring against income risk or health risk; - The trade-off between self-insurance of...

Key themes: Time Use during COVID-19; Time Use and Family Health Behaviors; Time Use and Gender; Behavioral Effects Time and Financial Stress; Sleep and Employment; Fatigue and Leisure Consumption; Sleep Deprivation Wellbeing; Employment and Time Use; Mental Health and Labor Market. Keywords:...

Thema: „Aus der Krise zu Health in All Policies“. Der Kongress Armut und Gesundheit möchte einen unterstützenden Beitrag leisten in der aktuellen Entwicklung einer Public Health-Strategie für Deutschland, wie sie das Zukunftsforum Public Health aktuell federführt. Ziel ist es,...

Der Kongress versteht sich dabei als Informationsplattform für aktuelle Themen aus dem Bereich Public Health. An zwei Veranstaltungstagen tauschen sich Akteur/innen aus Politik, Wissenschaft, Gesundheitswesen, Praxis und Selbsthilfe zu Themen gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit aus. Aktuelle...

The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and...

Gesundheit und soziale Lage stehen in engem Zusammenhang. Die Lebenserwartung hängt in Deutschland stark vom Einkommen, dem Bildungsstand und der beruflichen Stellung ab. Der Kongress Armut und Gesundheit schafft seit 1995 ein kontinuierliches Problembewusstsein für gesundheitliche...

In the aftermath of the Great Recession unemployment rates remain high in many countries with an increasing trend of long-term unemployment. Against this background we are pleased to invite submissions for the IZA Workshop on Social and Welfare Consequences of Unemployment. The aim of the 2017...

Propositions for presentation at the conference are invited for the following thematic areas: - Methodological innovations for research and monitoring on land and globally comparable land data generation - Strategies for expanding coverage, reliability, transparency and sustainability of land...