find that “singlestage”indices – those that are applied directly to a sample from amultivariate income distribution … first “discretised” into income intervals andthen a transition matrix or other tool is applied – may be robust if thefirst …

) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues … proposesa framework for modelling household income dynamics. it emphasisesthe role of household formation and dissolution, and …, income and poverty dynamics.We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates amongyoung women in the US. We …