The paper examines the outcomes of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) up to four years after the initial long-term spell of NEET. The paper covers outcomes of NEETs in relation to benefit receipt, education, employment and future inactivity. These outcomes are compared across...

This article, using ERF-LIS harmonized microdata, develops an empirical model to investigate the unexplored extent and fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a...

The net impact of development interventions can depend on the availability of close substitutes to the intervention. We analyze a randomized trial of an innovative anti-poverty program in South India which provides “ultra-poor” households with inputs to create a new, sustainable livelihood....

In this paper, Gini Regression Analysis (Olkin and Yitzhaki 1992) is applied to check the robustness of the positive correlation of the number of billionaires, billionaires' wealth, and the GDP per-capita, as reported in Prinz (2016). Although Gini Regression Analysis (GRA) as a method exists...

This article, using ERF-LIS harmonized microdata, develops an empirical model to investigate the unexplored extent and fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a...

This paper compares the goodness-of-fit of two new types of parametric income distribution models (PIDMs), the kappa-generalized (kG) and double-Pareto lognormal (dPLN) distributions, with that of beta-type PIDMs using US and Italian data for the 2000s. A three-parameter model kG tends to...

A copula is best described, as in Joe (1997), as a multivariate distribution function that is used to bind each marginal distribution function to form the joint. The copula parameterises the dependence between the margins, while the parameters of each marginal distribution function can be...

The paper estimates an earnings frontier by the method of Corrected Ordinary Least Squares (COLS) and categorizes households as efficient or inefficient based on some benchmark efficiency score and the estimated frontier. The spatial distribution of the poor and non poor households is then...

Behind a Veil of Ignorance, the Social Planner's problem of choosing from a collection of diverse wellbeing distributions is akin to a problem of individual decision making under uncertainty. This interpretation provides a rationale for applying the concept of Stochastic Dominance Optimality in...

For ranking incomparable prospects, a ‘Utopia Index' measuring the proximity to a lower envelope of integrated distribution functions is proposed. The analysis generalizes the existing Almost Stochastic Dominance concept from pairwise comparison to a joint analysis of an arbitrary number of...