of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility …

Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … (2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …

ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …

-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …

domestic prices. Under perfect pass-through, the mandate leads to a reduction in rural poverty by about 39 million people, and … poverty increase by a total of 8 million people. Our study suggests that the US biofuel mandate may lead to modest increase in …