Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to … take account of economies of household size, price-like substitution effects and the allocation of consumption among the … individuals of the household. No existing estimation method tackles all three of these issues in a simultaneous and transparent …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …

, fertility, and household composition, are analysed. The effects of the educational expansion on the growth of household incomes …, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …

It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets … also misses wider problems embedded in recent trends in the household income distribution. For example, inequality measures …

demands exceeded the carrying capacity of household land whose quality also diminished resulting in steep decline in food …

The purpose of this paper will be to study the evolution of inequality and poverty in Uruguay between 1989 and 1997. We … found that from 1991 there was an increase wage inequality in Uruguay and poverty changed little, decreased until 1993 and … little to poverty. …

an integrated European tax-benefit model (EUROMOD), we substitute the typical household by a synthetic dataset, which can … be used across countries. By varying certain important household characteristics (notably income), this dataset captures … a much larger range of household situations. The calculations performed on this range of households not only show the …

contribution to asset poverty of being a college graduate, a married elderly or a black head of household, a single mother, or a …Using PSID data for the years 1984 to 1999, we estimate the level and severity of asset poverty. Our results indicate … that the share of asset- poor households remained almost the same and the severity of poverty increased during this period …