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collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … the individual level is difficult since consumption data are typically collected at the household level. Per capita …
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, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows …This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain … patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics across the seven countries. The key exception is Russia, where the economic …
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We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a … collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources … among household members is related to the measurement of household welfare and intra-household inequality. We show that in a …
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methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … transportation costs can result in up to a 40% reduction in the measured poverty rate among remote-working households. … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …
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There has been no consensus over the concept and measurement of vulnerability to poverty (VP). Many scholars bring in … dynamic aspects of poverty, which are extremely important for formulating appropriate and effective poverty alleviation …
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This study examines the "cost burden" of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation. We estimate that the average child under six years of age lives in...
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